Re: Wireless w/2.6 kernel: good experience

The correct page seems to be

http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3

And thanx for it

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Knadle" <Chris.Knadle-15hjz6xD4c1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: [Annoyances] Wireless w/2.6 kernel: good experience


> Hey, guys.
>
>    Okay...  A number of days have blended together and I cannot find the
> original post to reply to concerning "which distribution comes with a 2.6
> kernel" and which also related to Wireless access, something to do with a
> Linksys v4 chipset card.
>
>    Honestly I have no idea about the Linksys v4 issue still - however, my
> experience with my laptop building a 2.6 test kernel (2.6.0-test4) this
> evening was a dream.  Wireless worked immediately, and that's never
happened
> before.  Usually I've got to make or install Wavelan.cs drivers
seperately,
> even though the card I have is supposed to work right away with the
> orinoco.cs drivers in the 2.4 kernel, but for some reason they never do.
>
>   I did have to recompile the kernel twice, I had some trouble with my
mouse.
> The 3c509 network card driver failed to compile also.  I'm not worried
about
> it right now.  I'm also having some trouble with my Guarddog firewall,
> probably because the method of detecting iptables in its script fails due
to
> the kernel layout not being the same in terms of /proc or /lib/modules
> structure.
>    This laptop now seems snappier.
>
>    There is some issue with Nvidia drivers with the 2.5 and 2.6 kernels
> requiring that they be patched, so that's a known issue to watch out for
> there.
>
>    Right now I think only the newest Mandrake beta has a 2.6 test kernel
> available:
>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/141230&mode=thread&tid=147&tid=187
> http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3com/en/92beta.php3
>
>    Please note that I am not a Mandrake proponent; I'm merely passing this
on
> as it proves my earlier memory was not askew.  :-P
>
>
>
>    Anyway - now I'm going to do some work..
>
> - CHris
>
> -- 
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle-15hjz6xD4c1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>
>
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