WOW. I could never get my Broadcom WiFi adapter to work under Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) or 7.10 (Gutsy).

Did you use ndiswrapper and the bcm43xx-fwcutter package?

I could never get ndiswrapper to work consistently with Xubuntu 7.04, but the bcm43xx-fwcutter package worked well.

For those interested, a good tutorial for this (and using ndiswrapper) can be found on Zenwalk's wiki. Oddly enough, I had originally tried this with Zenwalk but with no success.

Ubuntu's forums had some good info on setting up WPA Supplicant with 7.04.

On 7.10, I used gnome-network-manager and just entered in the info. Didn't have to use fwcutter or WPA Supplicant with it.

Same goes for Puppy - 3.01 - they have a built-in kernel module loader, and one specifically for network cards. bcm43xx was on the list - just loaded it, entered my router info, and got DHCP address. They even ask if you'd like to save the configuration for future loads! I haven't tried Damn Small Linux in about 6-8 months, but it was nowhere near this friendly.

I'm about to try a frugal install on the hard drive - we'll see how that goes!

UPDATE: I've installed to the hard drive, added the entries they proved to the menu.lst file, and all seems working well!

Has anybody here tried [url=http://www.pclinuxos.com]PCLinuxOS?
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I'm thinking of trying it out on my old HP laptop.

Just wondering about something.......

I have a g4 tibook and I'm seriously considering erasing my entire OS X (10.3.9) partition and installing Ubuntu but I'm not sure if I'll still be able to access my OS 9.2.2 partition if I do this.

I still use OS9 for Digital Performer 3.11.

I don't really use my OSX partition that much and it's so out of date that updating to 10.4 (or even 10.5) with a measly 500mhz processor seems like wasted time/money/energy. I have a PC that I do most dev work on. I do like Textmate though.

OS 9 doesn't rely on OS 10 to boot does it? I don't think so but I thought I'd posit the question here first before I do something stupid.

Also, does Ruby on Rails come preinstalled with a Ubuntu install? (Including Gems?)

Last question (and I think I asked this once but can't remember the answer): Is there an equivalent to Textmate in Linux? What are people using for Ruby development?

Grazi.

ruby on rails doesn't come but it's easy to install with the installation manager.
you can probably install ubuntu and it will keep your os9 partition clean and nice. i use windows and linux on the same machine and don't have any problems..

Just bumping this thread....pretty great.

My current job is 100% linux and I've had to jump "in the deep end" and learn a shit load. Really awesome stuff though.

Also, for the people that are wondering about which laptop to buy that plays well with Linux you should check out http://system76.com/ .

I just bought a thinkpad x61s, I want to play with 64-bit ubuntu As soon as I get it I'm nuking that vista shit.

Pure L wrote:Also, for the people that are wondering about which laptop to buy that plays well with Linux you should check out http://system76.com/ .

I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my T61 the other night and was up an running with basic services and VirtualBox completely configured in ONE HOUR ([color=red]including installation[/color]). They have come a long way since 7.10 for newer machines.

juice wrote:I just bought a thinkpad x61s, I want to play with 64-bit ubuntu As soon as I get it I'm nuking that vista shit.

Download and burn a few live CDs of various distros, then try booting from each of those to check out how well the different distros support your hardware, and how you like the various user interfaces.

I personally prefer Kubuntu over regular Ubuntu because I like KDE better than the Gnome desktop, but as the old saying goes, your results may vary.

For Lenovo, I'd definitely advise trying out SLED.

Lenovo offers a lot of the software/hardware bridge programs for Linux (battery monitor, brightness, Active Protection, etc). You can use Linux and keep all the Function keys intact with Lenovo supported programs.

It's a really good deal - I used SLED on mine for awhile with all the functions, but I had to revert because Dreamweaver wouldn't work well from my desktop with LAN check-in/check-out (it would lock permissions on each file every time I edited them in Dreamweaver).

Best of luck!

Here's the link for the T61.

It has less than I remember. Maybe that's because they pre-install Linux now?