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Old 02-21-2007, 06:01 PM   #1
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What is a good distro for a rt73 driver device.
 
Old 02-21-2007, 07:54 PM   #2
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for Wireless and alike try the following

Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntu.org/

Mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/community/mandrivaone
 
Old 02-21-2007, 08:13 PM   #3
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And PCLinuxOS. It's based on Mandriva. I think it has the same wireless configuration app. It's great.
 
Old 02-21-2007, 09:27 PM   #4
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Pay for Linspire or Xandros until you are comfortable enough in Linux to compile simple packages.
 
Old 02-26-2007, 04:12 PM   #5
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I am very good with Linux i know a lot because that is what i do for a living, it just gets annoying, every time i go into a new wireless zone and my card does work like it should.
 
  


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