[Discuss] Wireless on Laptop

[Murray Strome]

John Blomfield wrote:
> 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 have an Intel Pro/Wireless 2915BG in my laptop and Fedora 8 Live KDE 
> and Fedora 8 Live Gnome makes it work right out of the box. No problem.
>
> John Blomfield
>
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
Steve Nelson wrote
>>> 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
Steve: Did you INSTALL Kubuntu, or were you using the Live CD/DVD?  That 
might be the difference.  I have not tried Fedora. 

John: With Live KDE Fedora, is it relatively easy to make it 
"persistent", i.e. use an external drive to save all configuration 
changes, install new software, update old software, and save documents 
etc. in /home/<user>?  If so, I might give it a try when I get time.

Murray

Murray