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From: bosco on 25 Jan 2010 19:48 Hello, I am doing some charity work and all they have is Dell Latitude 520 laptops with a wireless connection. Do you know of any distribution that will work out of the box? There is no way to get hard wire access for divers. thanks bosco
From: F8BOE on 26 Jan 2010 00:40 bosco wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing some charity work and all they have is Dell Latitude 520 > laptops with a wireless connection. Do you know of any distribution > that will work out of the box? There is no way to get hard wire access > for divers. thanks > > bosco Hello, Not even USB? When I install my favourite distro on a box I take the minimal (dual arch.) CD and get the rest from a 80 GB USB2 HDD with the whole distro + last updates mirrored on it. It works great with MDV which has easily syncable repos... To manage the computer pool at home, I use my local NFS server (FreeNAS) which holds actually MDV 2008.0, 2008.1 and 2010.0. Ciao @+
From: andrew on 26 Jan 2010 00:28 On 2010-01-26, bosco <boscopelone(a)yhoo.com> wrote: > I am doing some charity work and all they have is Dell Latitude 520 > laptops with a wireless connection. Do you know of any distribution > that will work out of the box? There is no way to get hard wire access > for divers. thanks I am typing this post on a Latitude D520 which has run several versions of Slackware flawlessly... Andrew -- Do you think that's air you're breathing?
From: Ivan Marsh on 26 Jan 2010 10:44 bosco wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing some charity work and all they have is Dell Latitude 520 > laptops with a wireless connection. Do you know of any distribution > that will work out of the box? There is no way to get hard wire access > for divers. thanks Any Dell made in the last 10+/- years should be fully supported by any RedHat based distro. I'm running Ubuntu on mine. (No, that's not a suggestion that Ubuntu is RH based) -- "All right, all right, if it will make you happy, I will overthrow society." - Philip J. Fry
From: bosco on 26 Jan 2010 17:59
On 2010-01-25 22:28:04 -0700, andrew <andrew(a)skamandros.invalid> said: > On 2010-01-26, bosco <boscopelone(a)yhoo.com> wrote: > >> I am doing some charity work and all they have is Dell Latitude 520 >> laptops with a wireless connection. Do you know of any distribution >> that will work out of the box? There is no way to get hard wire access >> for divers. thanks > > I am typing this post on a Latitude D520 which has run several versions > of Slackware flawlessly... > > Andrew Hello Andrew, I am wondering if you can help me out? The driver for the wireless card loads, wireless starts, and then goes - not available. Is there a bios setting doing this? I am kind of stumped on problem. Thanks |