I know i may get slammed for saying this by the Debian hardcore but i installed mandrake 10.1 from Linux Format magazine a few months ago on my laptop and had everything working in 1hr flat albeit the Atheros Netgear card only works at 54Mbs not the 108 it works at with XP...even the modem works!! - its an absolute dream if you want to have a really fast install and dont want to mess about too much with configuration.
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:16 +1000, David wrote: > > Installed Kubuntu on the lappy this afternoon (replacing SuSE 9.1 Pro)[1]. > > Installation went well except it didn't recognise my Atheros-based wifi > > card > > (Dlink DWL-G650, h/w rev C3). > Interesting.... > > Warty/Hoary recognised my atheros based netgear pcmcia card thingie and > all went well at first, but warty lost the card completely - I never > figured out why it stopped working - and Hoary lost connection when lappy > went to sleep after which I had to completely reconfigure the network to > bring it back to life! ath0 had vanished from ifconfig. > > Most annoying when WinME works perfectly :( > > Any one else have intermittent problems of this sort? It's hard to give > diagnostics because I can't see any problem anywhere > > Other than that, Ubuntu seems like the goods. Cute desktop machine on a > Debian base - what more could you ask? > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
