2011/2/13 Wolodja Wentland <babi...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 04:39 -0500, Travis wrote: >> any ways, do an install with b43 wireless card and don't feed it >> firmware. this breaks the network and then the updates and then the >> voltial line in apt sources. in other words if someone attempts to >> install debian on a laptop its going to be a bitch to get working if >> they haven't used linux for years.
Hello I had a Compaq with that wifi card, when i installed Debian on it, i did the installation directly by eth0, and then i installed b43 firmware, usung b43fw-cutter. Now, i have 3 laptops with intel wifi cards, and i use 1 rtl-8187L usb card to install and install private firmware; the rtl-8187L does not need extra firmware, it just works correctly. >> sorry but i hate all linux's for what they've become ( i miss old mandrake >> 7.2 >> ) and debian was the last hope, now i'm not so sure :-(, automagic is EVIL! > > There is no single "Linux" entity, but I much prefer some of the > automagic that is happening now to the manual work needed earlier. A > good example for automagic gone wrong is grub2, where very few users > actually understand how they are supposed to configure it if they *know* > what they want and the scripts just don't come up with that. > > An example of automagic done right is Xorg. It configures itself > correctly most of the time and if you need to change something you can > place a little snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that contains exactly > the single setting you want to change. Well, i am having a problem with my touch-pad, clicks are not working, and i am unsure how configure it! > -- > .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk> -- Consultores Agropecuarios. Administracion, Produccion, Capacitacion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi-yorbdqhe66pp6ue4cswuolvqm6uc5em...@mail.gmail.com
