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On 1 March 2010 19:06, Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! >>> Finally got the study pc up with karmic 9.10 - found that although I couldn't hit escape to get to the boot menu from an install off the live cd, the alternate install allowed me to do this. I realised something was up when I was fidgeting the caps lock key during a boot and noticed the light wasn't cycling. I tried the alternate cd and it worked fine after the install, so could escape and get to the boot menu. Once in there, I could move to a shell, mount a usb stick, remove the nvidia 190 drivers, install the 185's, run nvidia-xconfig and reboot. I've installed the wifi drivers via ndiswrapper without further issue so hopefully thats it for now. Wasn't that complicated in the end, but I've learned some valuable lessons along the way that I can share with others thinking of making the switch as I've done over the last couple of months. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html