[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

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On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:40, Joe wrote:
> There isn't, the way mine was set up. Maybe you were using the
> kernel's internal PCMCIA code. I used the pcmcia-tools package and the
> associated kernel patch (and disabled PCMCIA support in the stock
> kernel).
> 
What about wlan?  Is that not a required package?  I have not looked to
see what actually wland does but I assumed it was required to keep that
program up.  If true, then that would be the user space layer.
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 22:36, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 19:28, Joe wrote:
> > > > Got the ISOs, burnt them, blew Slack 8.1 off of my laptop and fired up the
> > > > Anaconda installer.
> > > > 
> > > > The good:
> > > > 
> > > > - Very simple install.
> > > > - Very nice looking screens all over the place.
> > > > - Detected and set up the video, display, mouse, and kbd correctly, first try.
> > > 
> > > Yep! 
> > > > 
> > > > The bad:
> > > > 
> > > > - Good lord, it's slow. I don't know how they did it, but they figured out
> > > > how to make Linux perform like Windows.
> > > 
> > > Nautilus is nice, but there is a serious performance hit. 
> > > 
> > > > - It has no clue about the sound (which is 100% SB compatible).
> > > 
> > > It may be due to a sound chip using an odd DMA setting. 
> > > 
> > > > - It has no clue about my PRISM2 802.11b card. I was using the wlan-ng
> > > > driver with it under Slack, but RH doesn't include wlan-ng, so it's
> > > > trying to use the wvlan_cs driver. I've made that work before, but
> > > > not with WEP, and RH doesn't know how to configure PCMCIA netcards
> > > > (or so it seems).
> > > 
> > > Due to the pre-beta aspect of large parts of the  wlan-ng stuff (lots it
> > > ready for release, but other parts are still flaky) My USB prism2 is not
> > > supported at all (it is claimed to be but...)
> > > 
> > > I've had good luck with pcmcia under RedHat. It has "just worked". The
> > > new "wizard" stuff is bit too windowish but you can set the device to
> > > use for each ethx device
> > > > 
> > > > [OK, I just found the "Internet Connection Wizard", which seems to want
> > > > to let me set my WEP key and ESSID, but it still won't hook up with
> > > > my AP... grr. It keeps resetting the ESSID to "non-spec".]
> > > > 
> > > > All in all, I'm a bit disappointed so far. Maybe I need to give it
> > > > time.
> > > 
> > > I have yet to play with 8.1, but what I have read is it has a much need
> > > speed boost from nautilus and the window manager. 8.2 should be great :)
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > > -- Joe Knapka
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