Linux distro

digisatman · 28 Sep 2008 at 13:41

HI all,

Spent most of yesterday trying to get a flavour of linux working on my goddamn pc!

Anyone know of a decent distro that has emacs and latex built in (no internet avail)?

cheers

digisatman · 28 Sep 2008 at 14:23

trust me , i tryed!!! dependencies of dependencies of dependencies of...

digisatman · 28 Sep 2008 at 21:15

ill give it a shot, can anyone reccomend a decent wireless usb stick for linux (plug n play), or should i just get a wireless access point?

digisatman · 29 Sep 2008 at 10:32

looks good, have you tryed it yourself with ubuntu etc?

digisatman · 29 Sep 2008 at 22:25

cheers, ordered it! thanks for the advice m8.

digisatman · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:37

right ok, got the adapter today butcant get it working yet.

i done a fresh install of ubuntu 8.04, i plug the edimax device in and it comes up in the network list as wlan0, but the box to "configure" is greyed out.

do i need to install drivers or something else, i thought it would work out of the box?

any ideas would be appreciated.

digisatman · 1 Oct 2008 at 18:09

fantastic m8, works a treat!!!

I was just about setting down to another long night hitting brick walls with ndiswrapper!!!!

cant beleive it really is plug and play!