Since I ditched my dual boot workstation at the office and went pure Linux, I've been bitchy about my home PC. I haven't found drivers for my wireless NIC so I keep sucking Microsoft's tit at home. Today, while preparing to commit Hari-Kari, I stumbled accross this site. (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/) Their DriverLoader just might do the trick and allow me to run my Win drivers for the TI ACX100 chipset. (http://focus.ti.com/docs/apps/catalog/overview/overview.jhtml?templateId=977&path=templatedata/cm/level1/data/bband_80211_ovw) Has anybody else tried using DriverLoader?
/me looks for another HD and his installation CD's
Due to the overwhelming response to this thread, I have decided to post my results.
I was forced to use a generic version of DriverLoader because I run a SMP kernel. The performance sucked!
I installed Suse Linux, just to try it out, and it had built in support for my DLink wireless adapter. The performance is very good. Those zany Germans are so smart. :)
Thing, what distro should I dualboot with my new machine?
FreeBSD!
Quote from: St0rm.iD on December 24, 2003, 10:18 AM
Thing, what distro should I dualboot with my new machine?
You could write your own in Python! (Or is that Jython, now?)
St0rm, I've been a RedHat fan for a long time. This is the first time I've messed with Suse and I like it. I actually spent the $79.00 and bought the Professional Version. The default install is bare but secure and it comes with all the goodies plus stuff you have never heard of. Hell, it's 5 friggin CD's!
Do a ftp install from their site and if you like it, I'll make my Pro iso's available.