looterguf
I have an old IBM laptop which has small amounts of memory, so I decided to put Damn Small Linux on it. I have used DSL before running within Windows off of a flash drive and it connected to the internet fine. When I got DSL onto my laptop however, it did not connect to the internet automatically, and when I manually tried, it also failed. I searched the internet for answers and found out that I needed to get the driver for my wireless adapter (Belkin F5D7050) and then use ndiswrapper to get it to work on linux. After trial and error, I finally found the right driver, transferred it to my IBM, and set it up with ndiswrapper until finally I got the message Driver Installed, Hardware Present. I then tried connecting to the internet and it still failed. I tried iwconfig, and wlan0 did not show up. The same thing for ifconfig. I have no idea why this is happening… Any help please?!?!
I decided to go with Arch Linux instead of DSL. But thanks for the answers!
one would have thought that by going to DSL user group forum you would get a quicker answer, I will suggest you download puppy linux I downloaded it yesterday for a 10 yr old dell I have,
On running it from the live cd, I found that you can do a wireless hardware search, it is like everything else with Linux it seems hard to do
Things were hard to do in windows before one got to know how to search and install hardware drivers, if you could find the right drivers
stick with linux no matter what, in the end everything will fall into place and use the user forums that is the best place to get the right answers,
I need a Linux that is under 300 MB that supports wireless internet, not Damn Small Linux?
dbb
Knoppix is a bootable cd distribution of linux. Self configuring on boot. The only thing that I had to set was the encryption code for my wireless network. I have used it on non-encrypt wireless and was up and surfing the net with firefox in 5 minutes. Also come with a load of great programs like openoffice. Check it out.
Damn small linux toshiba satellite pro 4600 wireless driver?
suemulchro
i am trying to run dsl on a toshiba sat pro 4600 and after battling with the fram buffering video card i want to get the wireles working
support for the inbuilt wireless chip is not ‘out of the box’ so i need to find the driver for it but i dont know the chipeset or brand of the built in wireless chip.
does anyone know offhand? or can anyone tell me how to find out, i.e thru terminal.
thanks very much
btw, dont say that i dont have a wireless chip, i do, i used it in ubuntu!
Why don’t you search the Toshiba technical support line, here?
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modSel.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0852665843.1206296593@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadedjfidiekcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0
You can call them or ask them if they have Linux support drivers for your hardware. That is what I would do.
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