When my household went wireless I bought a tcx100 pci card for the server and similar card for my laptop. They have run with a dsl200 modem on an old desktop for years. I decided I needed the security of a router so bought a billion 7202g. I never had a drop out prior to this. Now I have plenty. Bought myself a rt2500 pccard to go wth it as I already have a 3com officeconnect card which just runs, badly. So I decided I wanted to get another 54m card which is guaranteed to work with linux and cheap. After searching the net I found the Ralink RT2500 hardware list which has around 70 manufacturers whose hardware with this chip is working in linux. I bought a Belkin F5D7010v2/3000au which works fine in W2kpro and almost gets to work in Kanotix. Oh well a bit of tweaking coming up. Works fine in windows, almost there in linux. I checked out oztechnologies shop first as he has lots of good deals. I was going to buy another brand from him as it was cheap, a LevelOne but I needed it now, delivery was days away. So I bought it from my local Dick Smith's for less than I could have bought the levelone from ozcableguy's shop. Ozcableguy has an excellent site on networking. There are several communities working on this chipset's drivers. Linux has serialmonkey and ural-linux . BSD has Damien Bergamini's ural driver. RAlink gplled the software so there are 3 lots of drivers for linux, RAlink also has mac drivers, it seems for 9 and 10, as well as intel ixp. Cool.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Kubuntu goes Kanotix arrives
I tried Kubuntu and although it is going to be great, it ain't yet. I have had my computer slow to a halt while using it so I got myself a copy of Kanotix and installed it instead. So far so good. Runs more quickly and seems better integrated. I will find out later if I am right or wrong. Once Kubuntu runs quicker I will most likely go back to it. I see Knoppix is up to version 4 and has incorporated software from other distributions including Kanotix. Maybe I will go back there. Wait and see what the reviewers say as Knoppix is very good.
I tried Kubuntu and although it is going to be great, it ain't yet. I have had my computer slow to a halt while using it so I got myself a copy of Kanotix and installed it instead. So far so good. Runs more quickly and seems better integrated. I will find out later if I am right or wrong. Once Kubuntu runs quicker I will most likely go back to it. I see Knoppix is up to version 4 and has incorporated software from other distributions including Kanotix. Maybe I will go back there. Wait and see what the reviewers say as Knoppix is very good.
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