Dreamlinux wireless issues

paradisiac · 31 May 2011 at 20:21

well, i installed dreamlinux and everything says it has all wireless drivers 'out-of-the-box' well it doesnt find mine

every other version of linux does but the one that claims to support them all :confused:

. any ideas?

paradisiac · 1 Jun 2011 at 15:22

have tried everything, cant get it to work.
is there a version of linux that looks like, or has a theme pack similar to this :

cheers

craptakular · 1 Jun 2011 at 16:36

lol don't pick a distro on how it looks as they all can be customised.

paradisiac · 1 Jun 2011 at 16:53

other than looks though, i havent really noticed any difference in the distros i have tried :confused:

craptakular · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:50

well you won't. I don't know the technical difference either.

I just know that I like apt-get and pacman.

Huw · 1 Jun 2011 at 19:10

Oxy's right. Pick a distro that works and work on making it look the way you want. It's far easier in the long term.

As for wifi not working in Dreamlinux, christ, it could be one of a million things. If you're really unlucky you could go through a ****load of testing only to discover it's a bug in networkmanager, for example. That happened to me the last time I installed Sabayon. The rage!

paradisiac · 1 Jun 2011 at 20:33

Huw said:
Oxy's right. Pick a distro that works and work on making it look the way you want. It's far easier in the long term.

As for wifi not working in Dreamlinux, christ, it could be one of a million things. If you're really unlucky you could go through a ****load of testing only to discover it's a bug in networkmanager, for example. That happened to me the last time I installed Sabayon. The rage!

its my wireless card from what i can gather. loads on the net with people having same issues

every other version of linux i have tried it works fine.
if all the distros pretty much feel the same, just look different, but all can be made to look the same, why are there sooo many different distros :confused:

russ0r · 1 Jun 2011 at 20:50

paradisiac said:
its my wireless card from what i can gather. loads on the net with people having same issues every other version of linux i have tried it works fine.
if all the distros pretty much feel the same, just look different, but all can be made to look the same, why are there sooo many different distros

They don't just look different :confused:

Stick to Ubuntu.

Huw · 1 Jun 2011 at 21:24

paradisiac said:
its my wireless card from what i can gather. loads on the net with people having same issues every other version of linux i have tried it works fine.

Surely if it works with every other distro, it isn't the wifi card at fault?

if all the distros pretty much feel the same, just look different, but all can be made to look the same, why are there sooo many different distros

Lots of reasons. Some are genuinely different; Arch, for example, is a barebones install that encourages you to completely configure the system as you like. It makes no choices for you and even has its own package manager. There's also Gentoo which is a source-based distribution.

Others are built for convenience; Mint is so successful because it took the base of an already-excellent distro - Ubuntu - and added even more polish and all sorts of multimedia codecs by default.

Then there are the vanity distros; distros put together and maintained just because the maintainer wants to.

Lots of distros come pre-installed with different configurations of software in order to cater for a specific niche who don't want the hassle of having to customise every PC they install to. A good example of this is Scientific Linux, a Red Hat re-spin that includes...well, you can guess.

There's a lot of chaff, yeah, and christ knows how many distros have been half-heartedly created and swiftly abandoned. Some exist only to re-skin an existing distro, like Ubuntu Satanic Edition!

paradisiac · 1 Jun 2011 at 21:32

Huw said:
Surely if it works with every other distro, it isn't the wifi card at fault?

its a fault with the way dreamlinux tries to initialise it or something, and the kernel is not there for it. its an atheros card, which needs stuff to get it to work, but it seems a 50/50 chance that any fix will work. not the end of the world as i played with it over ethernet and it seemed a bit limited in options.