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

mattgaunt · 28 Sep 2008 at 13:59

Latex is a little bit specialist I would have thought, could you not download the packages required for it and then just install them onto the machine?

digisatman · 28 Sep 2008 at 14:23

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

Minto · 28 Sep 2008 at 14:53

the dvd version of ubuntu has loads of the stuff from the extra repositories included, but I don't know if its available for download or just mail order

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?

JSW · 29 Sep 2008 at 10:24

Plug and play

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...-7318USg 54Mbps Turbo USB 2.0 Network Adapter

digisatman · 29 Sep 2008 at 10:32

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

deadite66 · 29 Sep 2008 at 10:41

i have a EW-7318USg

Code:

[ 8504.959232] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 8505.229910] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8505.589084] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
[ 8505.589912] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
[ 8505.612509] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
[ 8505.717382] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready

Code:

moon@desktop:~$ iwconfig wlan1
wlan1     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

JSW · 29 Sep 2008 at 17:32

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

I have 2, 1 on my wifes pc running Ubuntu and the other on mine running PC-OS version of Ubuntu

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.

JSW · 1 Oct 2008 at 16:08

You don't configure it

At the top right on your task bar you should have a network Icon with your wireless network showing up.

Just click on it and a box will come up asking for your Wep key

Thats assuming your router is set up with Wep security?

If its WPA then you have problems

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!

JSW · 1 Oct 2008 at 18:21

No problem glad your happy