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Live CD supporting Wireless?
Name: winkles Date: July 13, 2005 at 07:47:50 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2500+
Comment:
I'd like to run a Linux Live CD Distro on my work laptop (a HP Compaq nx9005) and I need support for the built in Broadcom wireless network adapter.
Am I asking a bit too much? Should I continue using Windows for the time being?
Name: totty (by allan_totty) Date: July 14, 2005 at 01:03:14 Pacific
Reply:
I'd say knoppix is probably your best bet but I can't find a hardware compatibility list for it. Recent versions also come with ndiswrapper so you could always try using it with the winXP driver if you need to. MEPIS also has excellent hardware support and can be ran as a live CD. DSL’s hardware supports also pretty good, it also has ndiswrapper (with a gui) and since it’s only a 50Mb download it has to be worth a try.
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