[QCLUG] Mandriva 2008

[Noah Norris]

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can your wireless card be upgraded / switched  mini-pci , pcmcia ??? ebay
and intel can be helpfull plus you have to sell your card somewhere. what
card/chipset do you have? beryl has been replaced for compiz-fusion (
merging of beryl and compiz, its installed by default in ubuntu 7.10 )
ubuntu 7.10 also supports ntfs write on drives . in the long run its cheaper
to upgrade the card an intel 2200 3945 card should be had pretty cheap.

ndiswrapper may not work forever.

On 10/21/07, Arron Lorenz <arronlorenz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with Mark on this one. I usually use "wget -c" to download
> anything more then a couple hundred mb
>
> On 10/21/07, Mark Overholser Jr < omnipotent13@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What are you using to try to download the file? I have found that it is
> > unwise to trust Firefox to download large files, as it will fail for no
> > apparent reason at different times (though it will probably tell you that it
> > finished the file). If you are trying to use Firefox, I would go to a
> > different method of downloading the files before giving up.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On 10/18/07, RK < ronknapperpub@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > A couple of questions.
> > >
> > > First, does anyone have the Mandriva 2008 DVD? If so,
> > > could I get a copy? (For some reason I can't even
> > > download the CD, it fails at various places from
> > > various mirrors.) My son really wants the Beryl
> > > (Coldfusion) or whatever it's called desktop.
> > >
> > > Second, can I do an "upgrade" to 2008? I currently
> > > have Mandriva 2007 loaded. The reason I am using
> > > Mandriva is I dabbled with Mandrake a few times X
> > > years ago and it seemed fairly good. I have tried
> > > Ubuntu and Kubuntu and just can't seem to get them
> > > configured for my wireless network card while Mandriva
> > > was almost overly helpful with using NDISWRAPPER. Now
> > > if I can figure out why Ubuntu/Kubuntu recognize my
> > > sound card and automatically configure it when
> > > Mandriva doesn't.
> > >
> > > Third, why can't I get the upgrade feature to work. It
> > > just won't go out to the archives. (I don't expect an
> > > answer on this one at all yet because I am not
> > > providing any details. Just putting it out there.)
> > >
> > > Now if I only had the time to configure NTFS
> > > read/write, figure out the sound card, WINE, ...
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, for all its failings, I am stuck with
> > > MS Windows for my daily work because it just works,
> > > most of the time. Blah blah, be quiet Ron...
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Ron Knapper
> > >
> > >
> > >
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