Wireless in Linux!!!!! Help!!

Zeus2005

Zeus2005

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Hey!

Iv been using windows but now kinda lookin at linux live cd's, as they can run Linux without needing to format anything etc.

My problem is, I got a version of linux thats live cd but it does not recognise my on-board ASUS wireless card. I also tried it on my Acer laptop (not sure which Wireless card it has) but it didnt recognise one there either.

Anybody know how to fix this? mayb I should try different Linux?, or do i just need to find linux drivers for the card?

Please help!!!!!

Cheeers,
 
its :

Austrumi
Developer: Andrejs Meinerts
Website: http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruun...
Languages: English
Categories: Minimalist, Slackware based, Live CD
Platforms: Intel compatible
Description: Small (50mb) live CD distribution based on Slackware.

Download: list of download locations here


from http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

I tried to get as smalll one as possible because of the slow internet here, mayb I should try another bigger distro?

EDIT: Anyone recomend any good Live CD distros?, that would support all wireless cards and also be ok for linux begginer?
 
Well, since its a live cd, you would have to do this everytime. Download and install ndiswrapper. Find the drivers for your wifi device and place it on your desktop. It should be a .sys and .inf file. Open the terminal and type "Cd /home/<user name>/Deskop"
Then type "sudo ndiswrapper -e <driver name>.inf"
Then type "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper"
Your Wifi device should be enabled now and so now you should be able to configure it under network manager.
 
Linux has horrible wireless card support. As mentioned above, you will likely need to use ndiswrapper, and you really should get off the live cd, or, you can always manually install the LiveCD to your harddrive if you know what you're doing. As for good liveCDs, many reccomend Ubuntu, personally, to me it has garbage for graphics/xorg/xfree86 support, I really like Knoppix for all my liveCD needs and snafus.
 
Thanks, I am downloading KNOPPIX at the mo, and ill let you know how I get on with the wireless drivers when i get back from work, i might need some help figuring out exactly how to do that (totally new to linux)
 
Zeus2005 said:
Thanks, I am downloading KNOPPIX at the mo, and ill let you know how I get on with the wireless drivers when i get back from work, i might need some help figuring out exactly how to do that (totally new to linux)
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If you get ubuntu, it is great for getting wireless up and going. It is also a good newbie linux distro.
 
Ye, i just got a knoppix based one and its not finding the wireless card at the mo (but iv still to try to install the drivers somehow) and also the live cd doesnt work on my desktop, gives me some sort of error at boot but works with laptop so think it could be hardware problem.
 
All those errors come from some hardware/driver issue or another. For example, Ubuntu wont boot on my laptop, desktop, or my parent's desktop. I get the "Error configuring Xserver" with a bunch of upside down ?s randomly scattered. error. Then when I run Xorgconfig, since it's a livecd, it won't let me save the changes. So for the hell of it i type Bash$ startx, it runs then gives me that same error, or can't locate family specific bla. Ubuntu has terrible graphics support, because it uses only open source drivers, which don't support PCI graphics, and suck to begin with. Whenever you settle into linux, do yourself a favor, install nVidia's or ATI's own non Open source drivers, none of the free versions include them for some reason.
 
SC7 said:
Linux has horrible wireless card support.
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Yes and modem support.

SC7 said:
As for good liveCDs, many reccomend Ubuntu, personally, to me it has garbage for graphics/xorg/xfree86 support, I really like Knoppix for all my liveCD needs and snafus.
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Ubuntu is way better than Knoppix I use both and Ubuntu sends you free CD's. Live and Install.
 
big_rubber_duckey said:
Yes and modem support.
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Yes, but that's mostly because of the whole Winmodem thing that Microsoft had going, where all the cheap modems sold or that came with PCs use the Winmodem emulation thing and all that stuff, and it worked on no other platform.

Ubuntu is way better than Knoppix I use both and Ubuntu sends you free CD's. Live and Install.
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That's no reason to like the linux distibution, the hardware support, especially graphics, sucks compared to Knoppix, just google on that topic, believe me, you'll see what I mean.
 
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