[Discuss] Wireless on Laptop

[Steve Nelson]

Hmmmm

I have the same card in my Dell XPS laptop and Kubuntu recognized it out of 
the box -- I did have to download the restricted drivers, but that is no big 
deal either.

It seems weird that it didn't work for you with Kubuntu.

Steve


On December 13, 2007 20:33:49 Murray Strome wrote:
> Some time ago, I asked for help in trying to get a Live CD or DVD LINUX
> distribution that would properly recognize and configure my wireless
> card, which is:
> Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
>
> I had no luck with Knoppix nor with Ubuntu (though Ubuntu at least
> recognized the card).
>
> On a whim, I just downloaded Mandriva One 2008 CD and tried it. It
> worked flawlessly!  Also, my sound card works great with it, as does
> Flash with Firefox.  For what I have tried to this point, it appears to
> be faster than either (K)Ubuntu or Knoppix. Admittedly, I haven't tried
> too many things.
>
> Although I have come to like a lot about Kubuntu, at least for now, I
> will likely be playing with Mandriva on the laptop.
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