From: Adam 

/m wrote:

> SuSE 10.1 had no wireless support at all.  I had to download the
> Mad-WiFi stuff (which didn't support WPA/2).
>
> If I could find a Linux distro with decent wireless support, I would
> have put Linux on my notebook, instead of W2K, when I went to The
> Netherlands last week.
>
>   /m


Have you tried the hostap stuff? that does WPA2.

http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/


http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/1729226

I tried SLED recently because the NHS is thinking of offering it as a
choice along with/instead of WinXP for laptops & on a compaq (nc6000)
laptop everything worked including WPA.....as to whether it was WPA or WPA2
I can't remember off the top of my head but this article:

Seems to say that WPA2 is supported.

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/reviews/index.cfm?reviewID=414&pagtype=samechan

"Wireless networking was similarly painless. After I had selected my
access point from a convenient GUI menu, SLED prompted me for my network
passphrase and I was online, my connection secured with full WPA2
encryption."


So possibly d/l sled & give it a go.

& if you have a 3d capable vid chip in your lappie you can even give the
xgl stuff a spin (literally) 

Right now it is fairly obvious (esp when looking at Unbuntu & SLED that
linux is entering the virtuos circle phase of more users, more h/w support,
better user experience, more users.

BTW.... I was chatting with a bod wrt my surprise at everything on the nc6k
lappie working w/o me doing a thing & his rejoinder was wrt all lappies
being made in taiwan/china & they are rapidly going for linux as a way
if saying their are WTO compliant.


e.g.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33284

"MARKET RESEARCH FIRM iSuppli issued a report which demonstrated that
a massive 82.6 per cent of PC notebooks are made in Shanghai.

The ODMs (original design manufacturers) dominating the market are largely
Taiwanese firms, but they have steadily moved their production to mainland
China over the last years.

And if you want a notebook that's got that little bit extra you'll be
disappointed. Isuppli reckons that notebook PCs have become more
standardised than ever."

Now put that together wth the PRC dmeand for linux &

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=33454

"The Central Trust of China (Taiwan) has mandated for the first time
that all desktop computers purchased from now on must be Linux-compatible,
demonstrating the government's desire to widen the nation's usage of open
source software. Central Trust is in charge of purchasing computers and
other equipment for government agencies and schools.

About 120,000 desktops will be procured by the Central Trust under this new
guideline.

"In the past, some of the procured computers did not support Linux,
therefore this new mandate signifies the government's push to reduce
reliance on the Windows operating system," Mike Lin, a consultant at
the Taipei Computer Association said.

Thirty-three desktop models from hardware vendors including Acer, Asustek,
Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard Taiwan, were certified Linux-compatible, while
four models each from Gigabyte Technology and Synnex Technology
International were still under evaluation, according to the newspaper
report.

In the legislative session held late last year, legislators reached an
additional consensus that there should be a 25 percent cut of procurement
budget on Microsoft's products across all government agencies. In response,
Microsoft Taiwan Corp yesterday said that it respected the government's
decision for the Linux inclusion into desktops, as long as the market is
competing on a fair ground."


& it's all good for linux on lappies....

Adam


Adam

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