Slax Slackware Live CD - nggghhhh!

[iDRMRSR]

So close. Golly this live CD boots up REAL FAST somehow with a KDE desktop.
On the laptop I tried out, it even mounted the NTFS partitions, including
the hidden ones Dell always sticks out there.

Sound, video OK, only problem was ACPI. If you didn't boot with the
ACPI=off option, nada, but otherwise it came up almost as fast as a boot
from the hard drive.

It's got NDISWRAPPER so I tried to bring up my wireless card. I needed to
copy the Windoze drivers files, which were immediately available on the NTFS
partitions, plug in the WEP key and ESSID and all that, and eventually I got
it CONNECTED.

I set up the default gateway, did this IWCONFIG and that IFCONFIG and this
DHCPCD and that ROUTE command for about four hours total and NEVER COULD GET
IT ON THE INTERNET. I even ran the same commands, route, netstat, iptables,
on my working wired Ubuntu and the laptop. Everything should work but NADA
beep. Ubuntu and Slax looked the same, but only UBUNTU could talk to
anything.

My wireless router can see the laptop and the laptop DHCP can lease an
address. But if I try to ping that same address ZILCH happens, 100% packet
loss. Magnificent. Maybe I should try to run everything through the DHCP
server on the wireless router.

Actually, it's simply hilarious. It's like the wireless card is operating
all on its own as a sentient being, having a chat with the wireless router
and otherwise ignoring the rest of what's going on inside the PC. What make
is so silly is having to copy something out of \windows\system32\drivers to
install on Linux. I love it.

Ah well, maybe in a few days my Sabayon distro Live CD will show up. And I
can use the little Slax LiveCD in case I need a canopener if I ever fuxor
the Windows install on the laptop. It's a nice snappy tool for something
like that.

Looks like I got some toys for Xistlessmas after all.

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[nikolai kingsley]

> I set up the default gateway, did this IWCONFIG and that IFCONFIG and this
> DHCPCD and that ROUTE command for about four hours total and NEVER COULD GET
> IT ON THE INTERNET.

i seriously think you should collect these tales of Linucian woe and
either get it published or just distribute a .pdf or some damn thing.