Inspiron 1525n and PCLinuxOS 2007

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My Dell laptop arrived on Tuesday.   I have used Linux since 1993 and for the past five years on a Dell Dimension 2400 Desktop so I wasn't expecting an easy ride.   That came with XP and the first thing I did was delete it!   The laptop came loaded with ubuntu 7.10, I don't like Gnome and prefer KDE 3.5, but in Gnome I was unable to set up my wireless router and this was the same with other distributions using the Gnome desktop.  After trying several Linux distributions yesterday afternoon I put PCLinuxOS 2007 on and everything, yes everything, worked out of the box.  Installed a few extras from the heanet mirror and I now have the perfect box.   Experience with other versions of Linux on the laptop, I have been busy:   Mandriva 2008 - does not have the driver for the wireless card Freespire           - fatal error with the X-server SimplyMepis      - No sound even afer setting it up with alsconfig Knoppix  5.3.1   -  Diffed that out for some reason I can't recall   I did two downloads of Kubuntu 8.04 dvd's but neither burnt without error as I was going to try that but having put PCLinuxOS 2007 on I am not now minded to change.   Hope this helps others.   Regards Graham In a world without fences who needs Gate's?

lucamax · Answer

Hi, you mean that your wireless does not work with Ubuntu ?

If yes ,it is really strange since for me since Gutsy with Gnome, it works out of the box without anything to do both on a Latitude D400 and on a Inspiron 9400. Now with hardy and brand new install wireless works perfectly.

pipesmoker · Answer

I am using a D-Link DSL-2640B wireless router and I am unable to get the laptop to talk to it in any version of Gnome using either DHCP or static addressing. I experimented with other versions of Linux and found PCLinuxOS did the job out of the box. Don't know the wireless link is secure so it may be something to do with encryption etc. Just thought if someone else was struggling running PCLinuxOS up live might help?

It's horses for courses.

Regards

Graham

In a world without fences who needs Gates?

pipesmoker · Answer

When I onfigure the router in gnome with ans SSID and WAP password the password is being overwritten.   This is true of ubuntu, Mint and all other distributions.

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