On 24/04/2008, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was debating between Ubuntu and waiting for Fedora 9, but I don't > > think I could have waited two weeks with the new LTS hotness staring > > me in the face! > > I have been running Fedora 9 Beta release for the past couple of days > on my AMD dual Turion laptop. Seems to do all the things I want, and > doesn't have the interesting AMD 64-bit crashes that have been in all > previous distributions that I have tried.
Well, that was pleasant. 8.04 ppc detected and installed hardware for my Apple wireless card nearly automatically (it gave me the warning of free but proprietary software needed, but after I allowed it to download & install, it worked on an unencrypted access point). Then, when I went to hook up to my WAP at home (WPA-encrypted), it went off without a hitch. I remember in the past having to install NetworkManager and using wpa-supplicant to re-encode my WAP key somehow, but this time everything happened automatically. Wow... wireless on Linux with no hassles (absolutely none). Not that I mind the hassles, of course, but it's refreshing for it to just work. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771-1845) -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
