Don't take this as gospel, but a Linux fanatic one time said that he had good experiences with the distro Mephis and wireless networking...
HTH, /paul On 9/22/05, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick tech question for you guys: > Does anyone know of a distro that includes ndiswrapper out of the box? > > Reason I ask is I have an older Toshiba laptop that my daughter > inherited from her aunt. 700 Mhz Celeron, 192 MB Ram (upgraded by me), > and I have a Linksys PCMCIA network card for it. Otherwise it only has > an integrated 56K modem. The hard drive went to the great beyond, and I > don't have the Windows ME installation disc that came with it. I > wouldn't particularly want to re-install ME on a new hard drive > anyway... gag . > > So here's the thing... I am very UNinterested in going through all the > rigamarole of recompiling the kernel and all that crap that seems to be > required to use ndiswrapper with the Windows drivers for the card. (No > native Linux drivers exist, as is the case with most wireless stuff.) > Even if I was interested in that (for a learning experience) it would be > a real pain since I won't have any Internet connectivity until AFTER I > get it all working, which makes dl'ing any required packages problematic > at best. So having the wrapper built in would be a real plus. > > Rod >
