Mandriva Xfce 1, Windows XP 0

I just wiped out (read: destroyed with extreme prejudice) an XP installation on my Acer Ferrari with Mandriva Xfce....had to use Ndiswrapper to get that ##$%@! Broadcom wireless card working, but to save future anguish, I saved the windows drivers on my Blackberry after I found them online. Maybe I'll post them up on my blog out of spite...lol

Vista remains on this machine (C90s) alongside Mandriva KDE....but I'm getting there

EDIT: it was the easiest Ndiswrapper install I've seem....wizard in MCC and select driver file, came right up....automatically blacklisted the BCM43xx*

 

Sabayon 3.5 is the first distro that fires up my crazy broadcom card out of the box. Every other distro required me to at least download the firmware.

 

Nice!
v1k1ng1001, that's because it's illegal in the U.S.A.

 

Hmm, if Sabayon is that good with Broadcom cards, I'll have to try it on my HP.

 

My Mandriva repos are at Georgia Tech....guess that explains the firmware issues, i.e. the internationalization of most these distro's. The Sabayon repo's are in Italy I believe. I won't buy anything with Broadcom again, that's the only language they understand....lol

 

Yeah, my first laptop had Broadcom, and that was in the FC4 days, so ndiswrapper support was 100% worse than it is now.

 

theZoid, I've installed Mandriva 2008.1 Spring on my laptop, and setting up wireless was a breeze.
Did you predownload the fimware? I just put it on my USB drive.
It took about 5 seconds...

 

Oh yeah, it was a breeze.....my problem was I thought I had the drivers on my External HD, and didn't. I'm not a home. But copied to my Blackberry, which I use as a 'flash drive' with it's 2gig card, so the future won't be so rough find them! But yes, once I had the drivers, the wireless card came right up and found the cloud here.

Forgot, which DE are you running? I have KDE on this machine, and Xfce on my Acer. They're all pretty great with that distro.

 

I installed Mandriva KDE, very nice distro

 

That's the way to go, IMO. Forum is pretty great because the packagers and Mandriva representives are involved there. Don't see how they have time for anything but that and sleeping as they're all over the place on the forum

EDIT: just sync'd my Blackberry via USB with Kontact in Mandriva. Man, I hope that barry project gets it done....it works now, but confounds the mind just how it did....lol

 

haha, I'm going to try out KPPP to connect to my cellphone tomorrow.
EDIT: Now I just need to mod the source code to make it right for me

 

i actually just install mandriva too...im gunna use it over sabayon since its 100% faster on load up and it uses KDE. I wish ubuntu used KDE o_o

 

It was actually a bit slower booting for me, but was fine after it booted.

 

ya i dont know why but sabayon takes ages to load for me. and it hangs a lot. A LOT.
mandriva is flawless in booting, it boots fast and doesnt hang.

 

I've noticed the full install of Sabayon is much much slower than pod. Way too much stuff isntalled. I wish the Sabayon repos where accessible. They've just disappeared.