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Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

M-Saunders — Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:18 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:18 am

khakilang wrote:

Why a post still exist after 6 years? Should been deleted by now.

Huh? Why? What if a post contains really useful information, should it just be deleted because it's old? What about discussions about the philosophy of free software that aren't time-sensitive?

Or do you want to go through many thousands of older threads, individually picking out what you think is useful, and what is not? Go nuts

M

Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

khakilang — Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:23 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:23 am

Why a post still exist after 6 years? Should been deleted by now.

Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

M-Saunders — Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:14 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:14 am

reklan wrote:

For some reason it was showing as a new topic for me..

Some spammer bumped the topic. In virtually every case where a years-old topic gets a random reply, it's a spammer.

M

Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

reklan — Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:56 am

Author: reklan

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:56 am

lol didn't notice the date.

For some reason it was showing as a new topic for me..

Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

Rhakios — Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:54 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:54 pm

reklan wrote:

Recent Distro's I've used on my HP Laptops that have worked with the wireless card are:-

Suse 11.4, Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 10.

all found the card from the start.

Sadly those distros weren't available six years ago.

Re: Wireless Broadband-best distro?

reklan — Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:45 am

Author: reklan

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:45 am

Recent Distro's I've used on my HP Laptops that have worked with the wireless card are:-

Suse 11.4, Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 10.

all found the card from the start.

RE: Ubuntu is great with D-Link cards!

bigbee — Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:24 pm

Author: bigbee

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:24 pm

Suse 9.2-9.3 detected my wifi broadband connection without any problem (after configging the security keys etc)
I personally think everything depends on the hardware you are using. If you're using a very recent wireless NIC there can be problems about the drivers being non-available by default (and you end up building your modules yourself)... But many of the available cards are supported. Some research on google probably will do the trick

GL with it

RE: Ubuntu is great with D-Link cards!

davecs — Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:38 pm

Author: davecs

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:38 pm

If you have your Broadband connection via Ethernet, then any distro should work. If you have plenty of RAM at least 256Mb, I would install of a LiveCD like PCLinuxOS (my favourite) or Mepis, and you can see if your hardware and connection are detected before you install. They are easy installs, and PCLOS comes with Java and Realplayer already integrated into Firefox.

If you have less memory, try something like Mandriva or SuSE.

RE: Ubuntu is great with D-Link cards!

jlarue — Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:55 am

Author: jlarue

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:55 am

I've only had two distributions that allowed me to quickly set up a wireless connection: PCLinuxOS and Mepis. Both have straightforward, graphical tools that work. Today, I may be able to add a third -- BeatrIX. It did give me an odd error message, but it came up.

RE: Ubuntu is great with D-Link cards!

jer1ch0 — Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:58 pm

Author: jer1ch0

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:58 pm

SuSe seem to have an excellent distro - tried quite a few but have not tried the latest 9.3.
But I've being messing with Linux for a few years and Ubuntu has been the distro that I've been waiting for.
My 2 cent worth.

Ubuntu is great with D-Link cards!

LXFRulz — Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:41 pm

Author: LXFRulz

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:41 pm

I've got to say that Ubuntu is the only distro I have used where my wireless card was recognized right away. All I had to do was enter the WEP key and go, and it works every time I boot the computer. I don't have to re-enter the WEP key, it is saved, for the next time, and the latest version even allows me to save different settings for different wireless points with their appropriate WEP keys.

Of course that is with D-Link cards. Linksys cards use the NDISwrapper, for their drivers. (Which was on one of the last LXF DVD's)
I'm am totally happy with Ubuntu as a home computer, their website has all the information to add mpeg, avi, wmv video to your Unix system, plus, I like trying out new software packages all the time, and Synaptic kicks but as a package manager.

That's just one reporters opinion though!
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Wireless Broadband-best distro?

aviceda — Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:31 pm

Author: aviceda

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:31 pm

Hi All,
I've recently been offered a subsidized installation of wireless broadband by the Australian government and want to use Linux rather than MS (if possible!)
I've looked at several distros over the past couple of years Mandrake, Fedora etc though I'm quite impressed by Suse, can anyone let me know what their feelings are?
Any advice gratefully received,
Tom