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Re: [LUG] Mandriva One wifi

 

On 1 March 2010 17:11, Simon Robert <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
As for
> mint,m its a good distro but is based on a gnome desktop, where you seem
> to like kde.

There is a KDE based community edition, also a XFCE community edition
and someone is working on a LXDE version too.

> Simon
>
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:46 +0000, richard wrote:
>> Neil Winchurst wrote:
>> > Terry Hill wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 24 February 2010 19:14, Terry Hill <telbonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>> I get "iwl80211 missing"
>> >>>>
>> >>> Actually, a typo crept in there, I get "nl80211 missing" if I use any
>> >>> iw commands pretty much, and searching around seems to point that I've
>> >>> used an interface I shouldn't have, which has put an entry into
>> >>> /etc/sysconfig/network
>> >>>
>> >>> I ran gedit and hashed out the following line:
>> >>>
>> >>> CRDA_DOMAIN = GB
>> >>>
>> >>> However I'm still getting "nl80211 missing", but I'll carry on googling ;)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Looks like I'm at the end of the road:
>> >>
>> >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/nl80211
>> >>
>> >> I don't think this is something that should be missing as iw is
>> >> dependant on it, I'm guessing it's been missed out of Mandriva
>> >> somehow.
>> >>
>> >> Hmm what distro to try next?  I'd prefer something Debianish and
>> >> definately Gnomey, but I think I've run out of those...Fedora perhaps.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > How about Linuxmint?
>> >
>> > Neil
>> >
>> >
>> http://distrowatch.com/  plenty to choose from. crunchbang maybe or even
>> bsd!
>>
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