Next meeting and Install fest (former Re: [LUGSB] Remote desktop from SINC site?)

[Michael F. Lamb]

> I also need someone's help with installing linux on my Thinkpad T60.
> I tried fedora 7 and SUSE 10, neither of which could work with  Intel(R)
> PRO/wireless
> 3945ABG in my T60. I know I have to install the driver for it. But it's
> tough for
> a newbie like me. So help please!! BTW, I don't actually care which
> distribution to
> choose. I just want to get started to use linux in daily study.

I notice that the ipw3945 drivers are available in the Debian archives, 
from "stable" onward. This means that you'll very likely have an easy 
time of it if you choose to install Debian, you might not even need help ;)

http://packages.debian.org/etch/ipw3945-modules-2.6-686

Which is not to say that other distributions necessarily are not as 
easy; I'm just unfamiliar with anything else.

Ubuntu in particular may be just as easy if not more so; I notice their 
"linux-restricted-modules" package contains something related to 
ipw3945. I guess the thing to do at the install fest might be to try 
Ubuntu, then Debian if Ubuntu doesn't work well.