Nerd Alert: Finally! Wireless in Linux!

[mondeo]

For those in the know:

For some reason, I've never been able to get wireless to work in Linux. My old laptop had a broadcom chip that, while popular, was teh suxxors for wireless support in Linux. My new laptop has a much better Atheros card, but still for some reason I just couldn't get ndiswrapper to work with it. Uncounted hours went into trying to get it to work on both systems, including multiple fresh installs with Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora in 32 and 64 bit. Then, early on in ski season, I attempted to install graphics drivers, and in the process destroyed my x.org configuration.

So back into nerdom this weekend, being stuck at home with a broken wrist and all, decide to work on fixing the install after getting stuck on wireless drivers for Win 7 on my desktop (card sucks, was planning on replacing it anyways - I'll never go Netgear again.) Easy fix for the graphics, just did a fresh install, and I guess I had set it up well before as everything came back as I left it before the graphics snafu. Set about to figure out the wireless, and I don't have to do a thing! Apparently during the ski season there was an update to one of the driver solutions.

Now to just get Wine up and running, and I may finally be happy with a Linux installation!

 

[riverc0il]

...I may finally be happy with a Linux installation!

Fuhgedaboudit. I have been a Linux user for over two years and have come to peace with the fact that you can only be satisfied, never completely happy, with your Linux installation :lol: It is fine tinkering with it but definitely can occasionally be frustrating when it takes forever to get key functions and hardware to work. I dread having to get a new computer and install a fresh distribution from scratch. Man should only be forced to do that sort of thing once every ten years or so

 

[RootDKJ]

So which distro did you settle with?

 

[mondeo]

OpenSuse. Ubuntu's better for compatibility, I know, but I really like the feel of Suse.

 

[RootDKJ]

As long as you got it going, that's what counts in the end.

 

[kcyanks1]

Glad you got it working!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

there're nerds on here..news to me..