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From: notbob on 17 Jan 2010 01:33 On 2010-01-17, AZ Nomad <aznomad.3(a)PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote: > That's impressive. I've yet to encounter a system more than 2 months > from bleeding edge that isn't trivial to instal any linux distro. > Are you using a defective CD burner? Nope. Been using slack fer yrs, burning my own CDs, but have tried slax, knoppix, openbsd, gparted, dsl, etc. Only ubuntu will not install (dual boot XP vaios). nb
From: Danno on 23 Jan 2010 00:00 Neil Jones wrote: > Last week I got a new Asus EeePC 1005HA. My goal was to install Debian > on it which some users claim is the best distro for a netbook. Yes, I > did read their wiki, printed instructions and on and on. A week later, > I could only get wired network working. Later I tried Slackware and > Fedora, where only the wired network works (on Fedora). The only > successful distro was Ubuntu which of all the reason is not my favorite > distribution. I prefer a "root" user accont for administrative tasks > and not type in the password for each package install. > > Ok, enough of venting. Now I want to know which hardware vendors are > most Linux friendly? > > Thank you in advance for any help. > > Regards, > > NJ > > PS - I have been using Linux since 92. My preffered distribution is > Slackware. I just took an interest wireless recently, put a Slackware 13.0 install down on a PC with an ath5k card and could barely connect with anything. There have been a tremendous number of improvements on the Atheros modules since the base 2.6.29.6. I built a 2.6.32.3 and booted - what a difference (no more ndiswrapper or mdawifi). The AR9285 chipset shows supports by the new ath9k module. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets I'd consider building a new kernel under Slack13.0 on that EEE before giving up entirely. -- Slackware 12.2, 2.6.27.7, Core i7 920, GeForce 8400 GS RLU #272755
From: bosco on 23 Jan 2010 11:28
On 2010-01-22 22:00:03 -0700, Danno <WhoaBaby(a)MySecretPlace.org> said: > Neil Jones wrote: > >> Last week I got a new Asus EeePC 1005HA. My goal was to install Debian >> on it which some users claim is the best distro for a netbook. Yes, I >> did read their wiki, printed instructions and on and on. A week later, >> I could only get wired network working. Later I tried Slackware and >> Fedora, where only the wired network works (on Fedora). The only >> successful distro was Ubuntu which of all the reason is not my favorite >> distribution. I prefer a "root" user accont for administrative tasks >> and not type in the password for each package install. >> >> Ok, enough of venting. Now I want to know which hardware vendors are >> most Linux friendly? >> >> Thank you in advance for any help. >> >> Regards, >> >> NJ >> >> PS - I have been using Linux since 92. My preffered distribution is >> Slackware. > > > I just took an interest wireless recently, put a Slackware 13.0 install > down on a PC with an ath5k card and could barely connect with anything. > There have been a tremendous number of improvements on the Atheros modules > since the base 2.6.29.6. I built a 2.6.32.3 and booted - what a difference > (no more ndiswrapper or mdawifi). The AR9285 chipset shows supports by the > new ath9k module. > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k#supported_chipsets > > I'd consider building a new kernel under Slack13.0 on that EEE before > giving up entirely. The best luck I had was with an Ubuntu flavor. |