All, <soapbox> Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=3873&forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. </soapbox> <trip> Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. </trip> James
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