ross549 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 You could do it via sneakernet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 You lost me on that one Adam. Is that an Adam Special? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 lol i might run a eht. line through my house lol. would a different distro help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 I don't know. If you google your connection and ndiswrapper you get lots of hits with problems in all sorts of distros. You could try Suse if you have that available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 You can try PCLos . . run it Live ( no HD install to begin with ) and see if the ndiswrapper works there for you . . . if it works install it to HDB) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 You lost me on that one Adam. Is that an Adam Special?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah... just usea a floppy for copying the lilo.conf over to the computer that is online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Here is the forum specifically for your connection and Linus. Tkae a look there before making any decisions. http://61.222.76.235/phpbb2/viewforum.php?...6d2285d2868814e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 teacher, is there any reason for recommending suse? is it like mandrake with rpms and stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 First try a LIVE CD !!!! . . . Do not go installing all kind of distos . . . try PCLOSB) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Bruno is right about trying a live CD but I don't know how much good that will do without trying to configure. I recommended Suse because it is suppose to be very good at recognizing hardware (all except my internet connection) and it is different that Mandrake. I did not recommend PCLos because it is so similar to Drake.You can look at different distros at www.distrowatch.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 PCLos has Ndiswrapper installed by default . . . so it will most likely do a better job Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 PCLos has Ndiswrapper installed by default . . . so it will most likely do a better job Bruno<{POST_SNAPBACK}> but so does drake, and it does a lousy job suse it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 PClos used to resemble Mandrake, but has been forked for over a year. It is much better since the split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 It is still very similar. It might do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 but ross, is it known to work with wrapper or does it work with the card out of the box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 You stlil have to use ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 If I see that special forum for that wireless card . . . . I do not think you can blame any distro for having troubles with it . . . blame the hardware manufacturer ! That is a very lousy ugly card you have there ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 |)amn it!!!!! why do i have to have all of these troubles. im going to try my linspire ahahah i actually think modprobe worked on that bu ti didnt know linspire at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Eeeks. Linspire? I can tell you that I just switched over to PCLos on my laptop and tried to run ndiswrapper and got the problems you have had with fatal errors and kernels. I am updating my repository to see if it makes any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) what is your repository? what is a repository? Edited February 27, 2005 by trevor51590 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 I repeat: If I see that special forum for that wireless card . . . . I do not think you can blame any distro for having troubles with it . . . blame the hardware manufacturer ! That is a very lousy ugly card you have there ! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 what is your repository? what is a repository?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> In PCLos you do your updates through a program called Synaptic. In it, when you want to upgrade your files you click on Upgradable, Mark all Upgrades, and then Apply. It goes out to the repositories (sites on the internet hosting the files you can upgrade) and then downloads and installs the needed files. I see a new ndiswrapper for PCLos tha tis version .12 if I remember correctly. I have 142 files to upgrade so this will take a while becaue I only have the first 50 upgraded. As you can guess I have not upgraded in a while. It is the equivalent of going into the Mandrake Control Center and looking under Software and running updates there.It has been along weekend and I think a little time away from this will help. We get too wrapped up in what we are doing and lose sight of the rest of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 wow in linspire i am on the net right now with ndiswrapper. strange how it dont work on drake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 That is because Linspire crosses over between distros. Glad you found success. I just installed ndiswrapper on my laptop in PCLos. I skipped all of the instructions between iwconfig and dhclient wlan0 because they would not work but I am up and running in PCLos now.Glad you found a connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 well if you would be kind enough to give me a linx i would have no problem trying pclos to give it a whirl. if it dont work ill just come back to linspire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Here you go http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/html/download.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor51590 Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 is it supposed to be a live cd? i was looking more for an install version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 It iis a live CD. All you have to do is click on install to hard drive. A large number of us here run it as an installed distro. You can run it live and if you like it then you click on install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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