Thinking of switching distros on one of my boxes

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:01 pm

I would think the system you mentioned here would work just fine with Kanotix. The good thing is you can test Kanotix on that system without installing. Boot it up and see how it performs.

It may run a bit slow from the CD, but if everything is detected okay, then go ahead and install it.

Backing up your /home directory shouldn't be too difficult. What I do is make use of an inexpensive USB external drive. Back up all of your /home directory (hidden files included) and your Firefox and e-mail settings should appear, once copied back on to the hard drive after Kanotix is installed.

Besides, backing your files up on something like an external drive is good anyway. You never know when a hard drive can fail.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:51 pm

Does anyone know if it supports sleep/suspend OOTB?

I see on the specs that it supports hibernate. I *really* like many things about (k)ubuntu, but there seems to be a widening rift between them and debian to the point that several debs I have simply won't install due to the goofy .ubuntu package naming. Also sudo -s is starting to bother me sine I seem to constantly end up with root owning stuff in my home dir and then have to chown -R the whole thing. The 6 month freeze and then upgrade cycle leaves something to be desired as well. In short, I've had my eye on the distro for a while, and might give it a testrun on my "testing box" but wonder if it will run well on my lappy (t42) - guess I'll see when my wget finishes.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:31 am

Snarkout wrote:Does anyone know if it supports sleep/suspend OOTB?

I don't know the answer to that, but perhaps you'll find an answer on the Kanotix user forums.

StoneChucker · Post by **StoneChucker** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:21 pm

After listening to shows 95 and 96 today, I decided to try installing Kanotix on my wife's PIII 933 MHz - 256 MB system. I've had other distros on this box for her, but the D-Link DWL-G122 WiFi adapter has never worked, with or without the ndiswrapper setup.

I love the debian based distros, so I thought 'may as well download another LiveCD - can never have too many'.

Well, I'm very happy to say, the ndiswrapper successfully uses the drivers for the WiFi adapter, and I'm able to surf the net from the family room (in linux!).

She has no problem using linux, she just wanted her neopets.... Now, to get rid of the Windows dualboot for her.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:34 am

StoneChucker wrote:Well, I'm very happy to say, the ndiswrapper successfully uses the drivers for the WiFi adapter, and I'm able to surf the net from the family room (in linux!).

She has no problem using linux, she just wanted her neopets.... Now, to get rid of the Windows dualboot for her.

Good for you. Glad to hear of your success. When I fianlly get around to picking up a laptop guess which distro is going on there? Kanotix!

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:14 am

Kanotix: Changing the world one PC at a time

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:42 pm

When I got kanotix up it was awesome. I put in my Linksys WMP54GS and installed it using the wizards and could connect to the internet flawlessly. Then I restarted my computer the next day...the wireless card wouldn't even detect. It said wlan0 interface was not available. I tried the wizard but it wouldn't work. I tried everything then went as far as to reinstall kanotix and tried everything again but it still wouldn't work. I have read countless articles on how to set up a wireless card and they didn't help much. I am going to exchange my WMP54GS for a WMP54G at bestbuy because I read it *should* work. I hope it works...

StoneChucker · Post by **StoneChucker** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:34 pm

CptnO,

I found this link in the Kanotix forums. It helped me greatly, getting the wifi adapter 'remembered' each time.

The link goes to the specific post that did the grunt work, but the rest of the thread may also be helpful for you.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:27 pm

its a problem with wlanctl-ng apparently there is "no such device"...at their site's hardware compatibility list they show the WMP54G but not the WMP54GS hence the reason I will be returning it for the WMP54G. I tried for 2 days but I could not get it to work again and the card does work on my moms XP machine so its not broken. It weird that it worked once though...

Post by **dann** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:31 pm

CptnObvious999 wrote:its a problem with wlanctl-ng apparently there is "no such device"...at their site's hardware compatibility list they show the WMP54G but not the WMP54GS hence the reason I will be returning it for the WMP54G. I tried for 2 days but I could not get it to work again and the card does work on my moms XP machine so its not broken. It weird that it worked once though...

Doesn't that suck! I hate when the vendor changes chipsets with a new model number and it breaks compatibility.

I use the wlan-ng drivers but the last few versions broke on 2.6.8+ kernels for usb wifi.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:18 pm

wohoooo! Its working! I got my WMP54G and I reinstalled kanotix. It detects the card even without having to give ndiswrapper the driver files. I thought it stoped working after a few minutes but thats because I was trying to disable the encryption and must have turned on some automatic security settings. For some reason it used ra0 instead of wlan0 but this is what I typed in the command line:

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dhcpd3 ra0
vim /etc/network/interfaces
/etc/init.d/networking restart
ifup ra0

when you are editing the /etc/network/interfaces add ra0 auto lo and add iface ra0 inet dhcp.

Now that Im not pissed at my wifi card I see kanotix is cool. Ill have fun toying with this for the next week. The wiki's at their site are pretty usefull too.