Nick said:- However both of those drivers can be fixed or worked around with ease from what google tells me. [3] Certainly not worth a distro change.
[1] there have been other well publicised problems with the release too [2] specifically bcm43xx and zd1211 [3] the specific advice for bcm43xx is to flag it and use ndiswrapper, for zd1211 is to download and compile a more recent driver version. Well I have a problem with my wireless dongle on Mepis 6 on a Toshiba laptop (Celeron 750Mhz, 192 Mb RAM) We got it working by downloading and compiling a recent zd1211(b) driver but it seems to only work intermittenly. I have disabled the onboard NIC and it seems to start every time now and iwconfig gives expected results. pinging www.ihug.co.nz seems slow (~100Ms) Browsing is sometimes fine and other times it just dies, as does my imap mail on kmail. I thought Volker might be onto something when he suggested (for another problem) too many USB devices - it seemed to be OK when I tried it this morning for a feww minutes. Now it is back to being intermittent. Where to from here? (It was working fine on Windows 2000) Rob
