Posts by ollywompus

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Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Well while it may not be useable for most people saying it sucks isn't exactly accurate Plus you could always teach people how to use them instead of using ndiswrapper as well. I...

Ok, so I see a lot of 'my wireless isn't working' questions on the forums, and a good portion have been of late related to the fairly newly released linux broadcomm drivers. These drivers _do_not_work_ out of the box, yet they still...

and installed Vector 5.8. I tried one upgrade to Edgy... lets just say it didn't go well and leave it at that (I've used linux for a long time... I've never seen a system hosed that bad *shudder*). Anyway, I decided to try vector...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf bigee.....lol...hate to disappoint ya but i switched back to ubuntu for right now.... its not that anything was wrong with elive....i just didn't feel like bringing together all the...

Quote: Originally Posted by talltim Thanks for the help! I think ndiswrapper is already installed and I was under the assumtion that it already was using the windows drivers somehow (not sure how cause I wiped it and...

talltime, From what Google says, that wireless card for that laptop is a broadcom, which means that Kubuntu tried to load the Broadcom drivers by default... only the broadcom drivers don't really work, without some seriously pain in...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Actually both companies approach Linux at the moment with the same attitude, they both provide binary drivers and no source code. The catch is how each is implemented, or...

Wow, I'm really impressed with FP9 Beta, it works flawlessly. I used it to go to www.abc.com for thier full episode player, which *will not* work no matter what you do with anything but FP8 or later, and it worked perfectly. This...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf olly... if you get some nice gtk themes going gnome can actually be set up quite well. throw in a little beryl or compiz and it ain't too bad. to me at least, also seems faster than kde,...