Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Although I would have replied sooner; there was a death in the family.
Hope you remember or kept the thread!
Gayle Lee Fairless(fairless@ieee.org) is reported to have said:
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> Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> replied:
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> It's worth a try, but the bad 770 locks up when it get to the pcmcia
> section on bootup. :-( Hope you have better luck!
> >
> >
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> >
> >Not really. As I don't run Winbloz, I googled for Wireless adapters
> >that ran on Linux, then if the drivers were running on Debian, then
> >the driver info itself. I found that the Madwifi software worked on
> >many many cards and seems to have the most versatile software, I went
> >and picked a few from their Compatibility list
> ><http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatability>. They, as of now, do not
><http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility>.
> >support any USB adapters. I have NetGear CardBus and PCI cards and a
> >DLink PCI card running with MadWifi.
>
> I will definitely look into MadWifi!
>
>> Check out the UserDocs on the madwifi wiki. Very informative!
There is also a Newbie section.
> >
> >I have had some success running USB adapters on the 770's. By far the
> >easiest, so far, was a real cheap (< $18) I found on Ebay. It is an
> >Ashton Digital WRUB-2011i with a Prism2 chipset. It uses the
> >linux-wlan-ng drivers, supported by Debian of course.
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>> Then I hope the US Robotics card will work, or I get lucky with the
>> Belkin adapter!
>You may be in luck after all.
> A google for "US Robotics USR5410 Linux" came up with a review that
> wasn't too good, but the second one you might like. The headline is
> "US Robotics goes Linux" and your 5410 in included in the writeup.
> <http://www.ameinfo.com/32533.html>
I found it and the reference to Linuxant and their product, DriverLoader:
(quote off www.Linuxant.com)
DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard
Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by
hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems ....
(end of quote)
It appears that the program supports both the Belkin USB wireless device
and
the US Robotics USR5410 PCMIA card. I have to hook it up and find out
under
both Linux and Windows XP Pro.
> Both wmaker and fluxbox are nice WM's but wmaker has a lot more
> configuration options that I just did not need. All the eye candy
> that I used on wmaker, I use on fluxbox. So I just went minimalistic
> and kept fluxbox and purged the others. I have used icewm, fvwm,
> Xfce, twm , bbox, and a few more that my old brain has forgotten. The
> beauty of Debian is that you can install all that meet your fancy and
> switch between then, real time, and then purge/remove those you don't
> like. Heck, you could bring up a different one depending on the day
> of the week, if you want. Ain't Unix/Linux the cats meow! :-)
> There is, IMHO, only one mail client. It is mutt. A command line MUA
> that does it all. There is only one editor I use and that is Vim, a
> Vi lookalike. Have been using them on Linux since 1993 and they both
> just keep getting better.
I learned enough vi to naviage through a text file and make simple
changes.
Although I have mutt on my Debian sarge box, I do not understand it as well
as I do vi. The messages to root go through mutt. I also have seen and
used
a version of emacs on the Amiga.
Anyway, I learned some vi because it is prevalent on a lot of Unix/Linux
systems
just as edlin was prevalent on DOS (pre-Windows 95) systems. It helped
to be
able to edit a script file or a batch file without the need to learn
somebody's
favorite word processor of the day.
I was able to install a baic Debian GNU/Linux etch system on the
Thinkpad with the
official network installation CDROM. Since I was not connected to the
Internet, I
need to know how to get network setup working and start installing
packages. I looked
at Martin Kraft's Debian maintainer notes on fluxbox. Did you have to
install a patch
to get yours working?
Regards
Wayne
Basic, n.:
A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in
that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
This sounds almost like a Wirth opinion of BASIC (Beginners' Allpurpose
Symbolic Interface Code [WAG)). He thought that anyone learning it
became brain-damaged.
I saw this about the time that the Pascal language was the latest rage.
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