We've just sold a laptop to a neighbour with Linux (Ubuntu 6.10) on it, albeit under the promise that they can "upgrade" to something more familar if they can't get on with it. Should be no problem as all they need is internet access and "Word" (ie Firefox and OOo).
Except that we now discover that they also want some media stuff (mainly playing DVDs, writing CDs, etc), and they need wireless. The reason they decided to choose Linux was (of-course) price; the laptop was under £300, and is a pretty basic spec with 256MB RAM. So whilst I have it playing DVDs, it jumps a lot - what should I look at to improve playback? (DMA is enabled, I did check that much). The biggest issue is wireless. The USB wireless dongle they have is "Dynamode WL-GI-700S", conveniently unsupported by anything. I have got it to be recognised using its own Windows drivers and ndiswrapper, but it isn't connecting to our network. That's only half the problem: the other half is that I have never even attempted wireless under Linux before and have a miniscule amount of experience of wireless knowledge on other platforms, so I don't know where to go looking. (If I had the same problem under Windows I'd be just as much in the dark, but without you friendly lot to ask for help, so that gives you some idea where I'm starting from.) I'd include extracts from a handful of useful logs except I don't really know what would be useful. NB: If the solution is to buy another wireless dongle which is supported, suggestions for a cheap option appreciated. However, I think at the moment that the problem is probably more me than hardware/software. I'd doubtless have the same questions if I had a supported dongle. -- Mark Rogers More Solutions Ltd :: 0845 45 89 555 _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
