Testing Knoppix

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:50 pm

Well I got Knoppix running on this computer.

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:19 pm

MAy I ask why knoppix instead of ubuntu or any other distro?

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:13 pm

I was just testing it out and secondly, I have a slow computer.

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:15 pm

gotcha; have you tried dsl?

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:22 pm

It's next on my list.

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:28 pm

It's pretty good, but the thing I don't like about any linux distro is the problem of getting wireless cards to work.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:47 am

Have you tryed backtrack2 , as it works fine with all the wireless card i have tested it on, right out of the box (its a live disto like knoppix )

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:54 am

Like, my wireless cards require to be installed with a cd that has a windows program, so I'm not sure whether it would work.

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:23 pm

The video card on the slow computer I have died when I was installing DSL. But after testing it out I can surely say that I am a Linux fanatic!

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:00 pm

Bobalandi wrote:Like, my wireless cards require to be installed with a cd that has a windows program, so I'm not sure whether it would work.

Backtrack2 come's with many Wireless card drivers on the disk, because its designed for hacking and for that you use wireless .

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:18 pm

Well, I just got a replacement for that computer.

It has:

2 GHZ AMD Sempron
1GB Ram(4-8 possible I think)
Now I can run a better version of Linux on that computer probablly ubuntu(64 bit!).

Also, now I can write and test a 64 bit OS and run apps that require more than a tiny 96 Megs of RAM.

ucosty · Post by **ucosty** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:42 am

You love the

smiley, don't you.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:26 am

Bobalandi wrote:...the thing I don't like about any linux distro is the problem of getting wireless cards to work.

You need to know which chipset is used in your card, and which driver is necessary for that chipset. And you have to know where to put the configuration for your connection. Personally, I edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/conf.d/net manually, because I don't believe in too many config helpers.

Atheros chipsets work excellent with the madwifi driver, the Intel ABG3945 (used in many laptops) works just fine with ipw3945 (or its designated successor iwlwifi). Many more drivers are actually part of the kernel. If you want to do WPA encription (as you should), you also need wpa_supplicant.

It's always worth checking the docs and forums of your favourite distro for howto's on wireless setup, as it's usually made much easier than having to install the stuff linked above manually.

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:19 am

Bobalandi wrote:It's pretty good, but the thing I don't like about any linux distro is the problem of getting wireless cards to work.

A lot of distros these days have NetworkManager by default (Fedora 8 does definitely), which helps a lot with wireless set up. Fedora 8 has worked without any additional configuration with all the wireless cards I've tried.

crazygray1 · Post by **crazygray1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:08 pm

I just got Ubuntu set up. I'm going to have this computer multi-boot Ubuntu and Vista.