[TriLUG] Thinkpad saga

Marc M linuxr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 16:20:52 EST 2005


knoppix-debian seems to be one of the best distros for this type of
scenario, IMHO.  It just seems to work almost regardless of the
hardware, age, etc.



On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:11:34 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Progress report.
> 
> I reinstalled FC3 with less "stuff"<tm>  I then did a yum update.
> 
> So far so good. I then spent until a few minutes ago figuring out how
> to get madwifi correctly installed on FC3.  It took a bit of googling,
> and I needed to manually move three .ko files to the proper place for
> insmod/modprobe to find them.
> 
> I'm now up and running, although I've had to downgrade my wireless
> system to use wep instead of wpa-psk (shhhh don't tell my neighbors).
> I guess the next adventure is to try to figure out how to configure
> wpa-supplicant so that I can go back to wpa before someone cracks my
> key.
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