[Cialug] Question: Distro with auto wireless configuration?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Even though I don't feel like it is really Linux as we know it (challenging
to configure, use, and full of crufty secrets, as well as pay-to-play)  I
will point out that Linspire could probably configure itself to run on your
toaster or mp3 player.  They are not joking when they say 1-click install.
I bring this up because of how well it configured my USB wireless that I
haven't got working since 8-(

They have gone to great lengths to provide a painless first-time user
experience.

I think because of the unchallenging AOL-like sensation and the $$, no
self-respecting geek would use it, which is a little bit unfortunate.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:34 AM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Question: Distro with auto wireless configuration?



Most of the newer "user friendly" distrubutions have nice gui network 
configurators during the install script. Mandrake / Mandrivia does a 
nice job of this.

Theron hit the nail on the head: it really depends on what card you 
have. None of them will work unless you have a native driver supported 
card. There are a lot of other options like ndis wrapper, or loading the 
firmware from the Windows driver like the acx100 driver does, but those 
probably won't happen during install.

-dc

Theron Conrey wrote:
> Use the latest daily netinstall from 
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/
> 
> also what type of card are you using?
> 
> Theron
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 08:37 -0500, James Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> 
>>t just got frozen.
>>
>>James
> 
> 


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