Kanotix

Kanotix is my second attempt at using linux and its working well so far. I have it installed on my hdd. I have a few questions about making it recognize the hardware on my laptop:

* Where are the drivers for Intel's 3945 card, or is it already built in?
* How do i make it recognize the X1600? I want to increase my resolution as well.
* I love KDE!

Thanks,
Sephiroth

 

you should surf over to the forums at kanotix.com or, use the link on the desktop for the IRC channel. You will get excellent help in both cases. As for the network card, try the 'fish' icon to the right of the 'K' button. In one of those menus is a little program for configuring network cards. If you can't find it, you can press alt-f2 and type in netcardconfig. The same program will run. It will then let you configure your cards (wireless and or wired) if the drivers are already there. You will have to use ndiswrapper, other wise. Unfortuneately, I have never used ndiswrapper, so I can't help you with that. To get video card going is easy, once you have a network connection. You open up a terminal and type in: sudo init 3.
This will drop you to the command line and kill your gui, which is required to install the ati drivers. Now type in: sudo install-fglrx-debian.sh
Everything else should happen for you. Again, go see forum over at kanotix.com if you have more questions. Lots of people ask these questions Good luck! I really like kanotix.

 

Linux drivers for the ipw3945 wifi card are available at http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/

You'll need to recompile your kernel to use these, so it may be worth while seeing if there's a deb package for them available on Kanotix' repository.

 

That's good news from TedJ. Safer, you should definitely try my suggestion of running netcardconfig. If that doesn't work, get the latest kernel and then try the netcardconfig again. Kanotix usually supports everything possible by default. You shouldn't need to compile your own kernel with kanotix, fun though that is They have smart people there doing it for you. Good for n00bs. Once you have some time though, it's really worth while to compile your own kernel, if for no other reason but to experience it.

 

I've tried netcardconfig and it recognizes my network card, but not wlan. I can still get on the net, but i'd like to be able to use my wlan card. I read up on how to use ndiswrapper, basically i need the inf file but i couldn't find one among the windows drivers that came with my laptop. Ill check out the link once i get off work.

The ATI driver installation is proving to be a bit of a pain. I've posted my problems on the forum and people are responding (including Kano). We'll see what happens.

Is there a how-to on updating the kernel? I don't have GUI anymore so i need commands. Ill start searching later tonight.

Thanks.