Did you install the firmware according to the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#ipw2100_and_ipw2200
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:29, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote: > I so wish I could get Arch working on my laptop. I've tried the last 2 > releases and whenever I connect to wifi - my wifi chipset is ipw2100 - > whenever I try to put a large amount of info through it - like streaming a > video, the connection always drops. BTW - my router is a Linksys WRT54G2 > with dd-wrt firmware. I'm using WPA2 encryption and have tried both > Network Manager and Wicd. I've tried asking on the Freenode #archlinux > channel and all they can say is to physically connect my laptop to the > router when I want to watch streaming media. That is just not an option > for me. Do you possibly have any words of wisdom, Mr Bess... or anybody > else for that matter??? > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm not one of them, but there seems to be a huge flock of people to >> Linux Mint. I see tons of blog reviews and Google+ >> postings<https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/linuxmint>about it. I personally have >> moved from Mandriva to Arch Linux on my desktop >> and ArchBang on my lappy. >> >> Jeremiah E. Bess >> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:10, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have tried openSuSE 12.1. There are pluses and minuses for an Ubuntu >>> user. OpenSuSE has GNOME Shell 3.2 which is available for Ubuntu and >>> KDE 4.7.3, same as Kubuntu. Those are neither pluses nor minuses, but >>> show that your desktop environment should not dictate your move. >>> Rather you need to choose based on community, support, available >>> packages, package management, etc. >>> >>> OpenSuSE is one of the premier implementations of Btrfs. It is the >>> default file system. KDE is the default desktop, but you can choose >>> GNOME, XFCE or LXDE versions. Btrfs is more complicated to setup, but >>> it has a nice feature to do snapshots and rollbacks. It has something >>> called Snapper to enable this. OpenSusE also features something called >>> Tumbleweed that in effect can change it to a rolling release. >>> >>> OpenSuSE 12.1 has some exciting features, but on the downside is that >>> it is an unfamiliar package management system for Ubuntu users (rpm >>> and Yast). It can be tricky to run for newbies. There is a bit of a >>> learning curve that you should be prepared for. It can become unstable >>> quickly if you do not know what you are doing, in my experience. >>> Support is good, but not as good as Ubuntu. The community is much >>> smaller. You also have smaller repositories and lose PPAs. >>> >>> As with all distros it comes down to choice and what you expect and want. >>> >>> Roy >>> >>> Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit >>> Location: Canada >>> >>> >>> >>> On 7 December 2011 21:59, Kari <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Actually I was thinking the same thing. I haven't looked outside of >>> Ubuntu >>> > in quite a while -- it is time to try something new. OpenSuSE would >>> be fun >>> > to try. >>> > >>> > And I think the group is just quiet. >>> > >>> > ~kari >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ben Chavez <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Did the group got quiet or am I exclude from receiving mail from it? >>> Has >>> >> anyone tried the new OpenSuSE release yet? I think it is the 12.1 >>> release. I >>> >> have been thinking on get away from Ubuntu after 3 years using it so >>> I am >>> >> thinking on an rpm base distro just to learn something different. >>> >> LinuxMint which is ranking up high I think is just second after >>> Ubuntu it >>> >> is actually a derivative from ubuntu so installing that it wont get >>> me much >>> >> far from ubuntu. >>> >> Take care and happy hollidays! >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>> Users >>> >> Group. >>> >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> >> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> >> >>> >> For more options, visit our group at >>> >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> >> >>> >> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >>> >> or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > Kari Matthews >>> > o: 630.457.1600 >>> > c: 630.448.0865 >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> > Group. >>> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> > To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> > For more options, visit our group at >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> > Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or >>> > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > > > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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