Monday, July 21, 2008

Linux anyone?

So far, I haven't found a Linux that wants to talk to my wireless card without doing a bunch of tinkering. Anybody have any thoughts or recommendations?


Boston plays Seattle tonight up in the Emerald City, with Big Jon Lester (I believe) taking the hill. I will not stay up to follow the result, so I will engage in the age old Sox ritual of catching the score the next morning.

4 comments:

  1. I don't think I'll be able to help much if at all. But what Linux version do you use?

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  2. Oh, I'm not. I'm looking to start, and I've tried a number of them, and none of them talk to my wireless card. If I really want to do this, it is looking like I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and make the modifications myself.

    That's just too much work.

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  3. What kind of wireless card are you using? I've got three laptops and a desktop running Ubuntu. I had to download restricted drivers (proprietary) a couple of times and once had to download the source and build my own. I hate having to look for drivers but there's usually lots of instructions out there to follow.

    If you have a windows driver for the card, you can use ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) to use that driver on Linux.

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  4. Thanks. (Love your picture.)

    I have googled it repeatedly, so I know about ndiswrapper, thanks. I have read a number of blog posts and such describing how to do it on my machine, so I'm certain I can do it. It's just a matter of going to my desktop, printing out the instructions, and following through.

    Like I said, it's just too much work for me to contemplate right now.

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