Linux distro question

crash75uk · 04-04-2005, 04:21 PM

Is there a distro out there that has built in ndiswrapper, as well as including wpa support included?

As have been trying hard to move to linux for a while and not having much luck with distro's and my US robotics wireless card(805410) on my WPA-PSK network(although won't go into specific here as have a thread running in the wireless page if anyone has any ideas).

I've tried Ubuntu and Slackware but just end up going round in circles and get frustrated at how close i can come, without quite getting there.

Linux.tar.gz · 04-04-2005, 04:53 PM

Knoppix can do ndiswrapper.

Demonbane · 04-04-2005, 04:56 PM

Try SuSE
or if you don't mind paying a little money($20), Linuxant's WLAN Driverloader works very well on many wireless cards I've tried.

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

crash75uk · 04-04-2005, 05:13 PM

Did want to have a go with suse, but you can only download the dvd iso and don't have a dvd burner.

Demonbane · 04-04-2005, 05:25 PM

You can download boot/boot.iso and do an FTP installation. It's better that way in fact, since you probably won't need half of the softwares that's on the DVD.

crash75uk · 04-05-2005, 06:39 AM

Does Suse support WPA?

As otherwise going to have a pig of a job setting it up to ftp downlaod if i can't get it to access the internet from other disto's?

okmyx · 04-05-2005, 06:47 AM

Its not some much as whether the distro supports WPA as whether the driver for your card supports it.