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  • P Paul Conrad

    Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?

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    Psycho Coder Extreme
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    Paul Conrad wrote:

    Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?

    Sorry about that Paul, I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back (this was my first wireless setup and when I found out WAP is much more secure I changed) so yes it does support WAP. My bad

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    • P Psycho Coder Extreme

      Paul Conrad wrote:

      Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?

      Sorry about that Paul, I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back (this was my first wireless setup and when I found out WAP is much more secure I changed) so yes it does support WAP. My bad

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      Paul Conrad
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      Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:

      I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back

      I just did about two/three weeks ago and it broke the wireless with Ubuntu.  There are workarounds to get WPA to work on Ubuntu, but there's too much arm twisting involved :laugh: I am going to look at PCLinuxOS then :-D

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      • P Paul Conrad

        Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:

        I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back

        I just did about two/three weeks ago and it broke the wireless with Ubuntu.  There are workarounds to get WPA to work on Ubuntu, but there's too much arm twisting involved :laugh: I am going to look at PCLinuxOS then :-D

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        I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall

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        • P Psycho Coder Extreme

          I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall

          "Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch

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          Paul Conrad
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          Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:

          I didn't have a problem getting it to work

          That is how I felt when I first ran into Ubuntu two years ago.  No problem getting wireless to work compared to Redhat.  As I post this, I am downloading PCLinuxOS to give it a whirl :-D

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          • P Psycho Coder Extreme

            I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall

            "Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch

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            Paul Conrad
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            I downloaded it, burned iso to cd, ran it on my laptop, config'ed the WPA on wireless, and posting this message from it :-D "That's no moon, it's a space station" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

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            • P Paul Conrad

              I downloaded it, burned iso to cd, ran it on my laptop, config'ed the WPA on wireless, and posting this message from it :-D "That's no moon, it's a space station" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

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              Psycho Coder Extreme
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              Nice isn't it? Its the easiest distro I've found to setup and run. I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.

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              • P Psycho Coder Extreme

                Nice isn't it? Its the easiest distro I've found to setup and run. I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.

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                Paul Conrad
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                Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:

                I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.

                That is really nice. Ubuntu 7 has that feature as well, but the winner with PCLinuxOS is being able to setup the wireless with WPA. Little or no effort, well, only effort was to get up and get the ESSID and PSK :laugh: I have to say it is a very nice Linux distro :-D

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                • P Paul Conrad

                  Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:

                  I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.

                  That is really nice. Ubuntu 7 has that feature as well, but the winner with PCLinuxOS is being able to setup the wireless with WPA. Little or no effort, well, only effort was to get up and get the ESSID and PSK :laugh: I have to say it is a very nice Linux distro :-D

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                  Psycho Coder Extreme
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                  I'm rather impressed with it too since I'm really not a Linux "guru". They really made it easy to use. Now if there was just a way to get my development software to work on it I'd be truly happy ;P

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                  • N ne0h

                    I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?

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                    If you don't kow about it already you might want to try: PC-BSD[^] instead of Linux.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      I'm sure you don't mean 3MHz. That's not exactly the fastest clock you could be running at.;P

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                      Abu Mami
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                      Umm, yeah - even slower than my old IBM PC at 4.77(?) MHz Sorry, meant 3 GHz of course

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                      • P Pete OHanlon

                        I'm sure you don't mean 3MHz. That's not exactly the fastest clock you could be running at.;P

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                        benjymous
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                        Three times faster than a ZX Spectrum, or about half the speed of an Amiga A500 :-D

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                        • S Super Lloyd

                          If you don't kow about it already you might want to try: PC-BSD[^] instead of Linux.

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                          Rick Seenarine
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                          Super Lloyd wrote:

                          If you don't kow about it already you might want to try: PC-BSD[^] instead of Linux.

                          Didn't know about PC-BSD, thanks for the link! For the original author that posted the linux distro question, just checked the requirements: Minimum system requirements Pentium or higher (686) 256MB Ram 4GB of free Hard Drive space (Either partition, or entire disk) Network card Sound card

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                          • P Psycho Coder Extreme

                            I run a dual-boot with PCLinuxOS and it seems to be a nice distro

                            "Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch

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                            jcmaida
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                            Tom, Where did you integer signature quote come from?

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                            • J jcmaida

                              Tom, Where did you integer signature quote come from?

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                              Psycho Coder Extreme
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                              jcmaida wrote:

                              Where did you integer signature quote come from?

                              It was one of his posts (a reply to a post) in the Coding Horrors forum many many months ago

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