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Home Architecture, security and coding Wifi with Mandriva 2010.0
Wifi with Mandriva 2010.0
Written by Division by Zero   
Monday, 17 May 2010 11:03

I just got a new second hand laptop. After installing Mandriva 2010.0 I got the whole thing running in 30 minutes. Except for the wireless connection. The last Linux version I installed was Mandriva 2008.1. That version tried to find all the right drivers and mostly succeeded. 2010.0 did the same, but when it came to the wireless network device the installer just asked for the Windows driver. That kinda startled me. After copying the driver to /etc/WirelessWindowsDriver (or something like that) and told the installer the location, everything worked. Using a ndiswrapper to use common available drivers instead of needing local drivers for everything is a genius move.

Quite happy working on Mandriva again!

 

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