Linux Laptops
Timothy J. Finucane
speljamr at speljamr.com
Thu Sep 9 19:28:49 EDT 2004
The book is worth purchasing as it covers many linux wireless topics. I
haven't read it cover to cover but I've browsed through and foun several
chapters I might go back to later.
The best place I found to get an Orinoco Gold card was on e-bay.
And 9.1 was positively worth it. There was only one thing I didn't like.
They have dumped Apache 1.x in favor of 2.x. I had to redo all of my
local settings after the upgrade because I have several local
development web sites. I prefered 1.x because it is 1)stable and 2) what
is on my hosting providers platform. I think you can put Apache 1.x back
on manually, but you can't use Yast2 to interact with it.
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:49, Advent Systems wrote:
> Tim,
> Thanks for the info.
> Is the book worth purchasing or did it just help you with this
> particular wireless problem? Where did you get your card? Was the
> upgrade to 9.1 worth it, besides the wireless issues?
>
> Thanks again,
> Bob Randal
>
> Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
>
> >Bob,
> >
> >I did try the Linuxant "driver/wrappers" but I also had problems with
> >them on Suse. I did use Suse 8.2 and 9.0 prior to using 9.1. I could not
> >get the built in wireless to work on any of them. The built in wireless
> >is a USB Prism 2 and I read plenty of articles by people who were able
> >to get them to work, but I had no luck. After many headaches I bought
> >O'Reilly's new Lnux Unwired book and found my solution. The resolution
> >to the problem was investing in a good Orinoco Gold Card. It was well
> >worth the investment because it worked immediately using the Yast2
> >network card configuration. No headaches! I've been happily wireless
> >ever since.
> >
> >Tim Finucane
> >
> >
> >
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