one thing left to add to make DSL perfect
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: one thing left to add to make DSL perfect
started by: NoWop
Posted by NoWop on Sep. 24 2003,01:40
Only one thing left to add to make DSL perfect: WIRELESS!
Posted by alexm on Sep. 24 2003,17:45
and please add saving persistent home to a usbkey.. i might actually cry for joy once this is added :)
Posted by Guest on Sep. 24 2003,19:12
More people probably have floppy drives.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,00:52
yeah.. some sort of USB config save would be really really really nice 
Posted by dallas7 on Sep. 25 2003,05:16
Looks like wireless is supported on 0.4.8 but it doesn't see my WPC11v3. I saw drivers for Orinoco, Hermes and a third I can't remeber at the moment (Air something??).I know it's easy to ask for things to keep getting piled into DSL, so here goes: drivers for Intersil, Atheros and Broadcom. If not all three, then just Intersil.
And yeah, being able to save files and a config to a USB flash drive would be sooooooo nice.
Posted by ImNotHere on Sep. 25 2003,06:19
slackware-live has it its soo useful.. but don't worry, I still love DSL, Slackware live is in the 185 MB market and DSL is in the 45 yet... DSL has more stuff :S
Posted by Taomyn on Oct. 12 2003,01:40
Just discovered DSL, I'm a bit of a Linux newbie, and when I tried it against my USR (PRISM 2 based) WiFi card, I was pleased to find it was recognised with out a problem. A friend of mine had had terrible trouble getting it to work under Mandrake.However, there's a mismatch between IWCONFIG and the ORINOCO driver that throws up a warning that the driver is compiled as version 14 but IWCONFIG is at version 16 and it may mean that IWCONFIG will be broken!
I think it's telling the truth as it won't accept the ESSID keyword e.g.
| Code Sample |
| iwconfig eth0 essid MYSSID key restricted BLAHBLAHBLAH |