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Started by Thing, December 16, 2003, 09:29 AM

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Thing

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.  Their DriverLoader just might do the trick and allow me to run my Win drivers for the TI ACX100 chipset.  Has anybody else tried using DriverLoader?

* Thing looks for another HD and his installation CD's
That sucking sound you hear is my bandwidth.

Thing

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. :)
That sucking sound you hear is my bandwidth.

Banana fanna fo fanna

Thing, what distro should I dualboot with my new machine?

iago

This'll make an interesting test for broken AV:
QuoteX5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*


Skywing

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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?)

Thing

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.
That sucking sound you hear is my bandwidth.