In fact, about a year ago I tried to get it working on Slackware or SuSE (one of them would have been good enough), but failed badly. I had no success whatsoever on Slackware, while on SuSE the card was detected, but could not do anything.

I finally got me a Netgear WT511, which worked just fine; I haven't tried it with Slackware, but in SuSE Linux it worked out of the box with all modes, but ad hoc.

Note, however, that for some project specific reasons, I did not try NDISwrapper. I only tried native drivers. Chance is that the D-LINK card will work with NDISwrapper, although this is, to my knowledge, a solution that will eat up some processing power... Good luck

gargamel

what???? i think you posted wrong. a bootloader has nothing to do with cards, unless.. you have a scsi card.. or sata controller card.. still... the bootloader will boot the device.. it is just config.

either way, it has been said several times that they are equal, but i disagree. lilo works, and it relyable, which is why grub doesnt ship with slackware. but grub is far superior in what it can do, like said before, the cli is awesome. you can boot from different kernels, images, whatver, with just some command options.

I prefer LILO, cause it does its job and nothing extra. Follows the UNIX philosophy way better than GRUB, which I consider bloatware because it isn't just a bootloader. GRUB is an OS itself.

Another vote for lilo, besides if you fsck up your install (and you will someday! ) booting from the install cd and reinstalling lilo is so easy it's almost embarasing. Personally it boots my gentoo and freebsd partitions

i do agree.. lilo is very good. fact is, what do you want to do? linux is about choice, so decide if you want to boot your system.. and nothing more, or have other boot/recovery options.

note, the only reason i switched to grub on my laptop was the lilo vbios check problem with intel video chipsets. the problem is known and not resolved... so the switch was the only option.

I like Grub, it's very simple and powerful

with Lilo I was not able to boot 2 linux installation, both with initrd, while it is very easy to
do with Grub.

And, if You have Grub on a floppy, You can boot almost everything, also if the file "menu.lst" on the floppy has nothing for the computer You are tring to boot.

(sorry for my english)