[clug] Your mission, if you chose to accept...

Drew Parsons Drew.Parsons at anu.edu.au
Fri Apr 29 04:38:44 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:30 +1000, Frank Turcic wrote:
> .is to assist me with installing some kind of linux distro onto my brand new
> Sony VAIO VGN-S38GP.  I was impressed with the amount of laptops that were
> running Debian/FC3 at last nights CLUG meeting that I insisted to do the
> same with mine.  This is the first time I will attempt to install linux onto
> a laptop although I do have a fair amount of knowledge installing linux
> distros onto PCs (IPCop, RedHat, Fedora Core X, and Mandrake) 
> 
>  

> 802.11x NIC:     IntelR PRO / Wireless 2200BG
> 

If you use Debian, you'll need to install the ipw2200-source package and
compile (use module-assistant). I presume it's much the same with the
other distros.

Drew



More information about the linux mailing list