[ale] No Wireless on Slackware [was No Wireless on SuSE] - SOLVED

[Shorter Rankin]

Thank you Christopher Fowler and Dan Lambert
for help on this. My father was born in Atlanta,
parents taught me better manners so I apologize
for the long time getting back to y'all....

The T30 had a flakey DVD drive (I actually
installed Slackware using disk sets). So I bought
a new DVD drive. The solution was to install
Open SuSE 10.2 and then my Classic Orinoco
16 bit Gold Card was recognized and I connect
at public libraries & Internet cafes.

I'm much more a Slackware person but will
have to wait until they ship a 2.6x kernel
as the default. It was just too difficult
to resolve hotplug, udev, cardmgr - deprecated
in the 2.6x kernel, without breaking something
when I ran the default 2.4.33.3 kernel...

About Ubuntu, Kbuntu, Xbantu: I certainly
applaud them for their achievements. Lots
of buzz about these distros. Seems they
are all about bringing Windows users into
the Linux fold. And I had Ubutu Breezy Badger
on a ThinkPad 600E for awhile. There were
some things I liked about it. Bottom line
I'm much more attracted to Slackware - or
Vector Linux (on old hardware). Sorry,
that's just my personal preference.


Again, thanks y'all for help on this.

Shorter Rankin

--original message --
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:24:12 -0400
From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] No Wireless on SuSE
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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<1175545452.12691.128.camel at shuttle.linxdev.com>
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On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:15 -0700, Shorter Rankin wrote:
> What is the best distro which has a 2.6x kernel
> plus support for an Orinoco 16 bit 802.11b Classic
> gold card? I am currently running Slackware 11.0
> on a ThinkPad T30. When I boot the default
> 2.4.33.3 kernel my wireless card is recognized
> so I can connect at the public library. But when
> I boot the 2.6.17.13 kernel from /testing my
> wireless card is recongized but I cannot connect.
> 

I use this card on my laptop running Xubuntu.  Works great!





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