Install/Fest

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:26 -0700, Robert Rosenwald wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm thinking of coming to the InstallFest this Saturday. I'm relatively 
> new to Linux having installed it and uninstalled it about a dozen times 
> on various systems. Recently I got SUSE 8.1 installed on my Sony Vaio 
> 505TR and all is fine except that I can't get connected to any network. 
> All my connectors are either USB 1.1 or PCMCIA. I really want to get my 
> wireless card working. IIRC I have a D-link DWL-G650 card that is my 
> preferred one. I also have either a linksys or netgear (don't recall 
> right now). I'm a moderately competent computerist but this has taxed me 
> beyond my abilities. Hope someone can help. I don't mind at all blowing 
> away what I already have installed. There's NOTHING of value on this 
> computer (in fact I already totally had reformatted the harddrive for 
> Linux before beginning.)
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you probably want a distro more current than that - it would make
configuring your wireless much simpler.

Craig