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Originally Posted by peekitty
And did Knoppix prompt you for driver discs, or launch "new hardware detected" wizards? No, because all the other drivers for your laptop are already there. It wouldn't go as smoothly if you were doing a new install of Win2000 or god forbid, WinME. Actually, you probably have an 2000 install in your future, if removing the card from device manager and reinstalling it doesn't help (it will reuse the current driver,) you'll probably find that a format & reinstall will do the trick.
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Hi peekitty,
I run an m68k Debian distro and SuSE as well as using Knoppix (which is Debian based). I'm a fan. It's not badmouthing Linux to point out that drivers tend to be more available for Windows than Linux. It will be nice when that changes and h/w manufacturers release more Open Source (i.e. GPL or BSD) drivers.
As for a reinstall in my future, it looks like it, as the Control Panel has two copies of the link to the client manager - one which works, and one which doesn't - it looks like a deinstall/reinstall went wrong - probably due to me installing new wireless s/w before removing the old. The non-functional link doesn't want to go away.
I can't convert to Linux-only operation, as the Samsung Q10 is actually for someone who is visually disabled and needs to use a screen reader (Jaws). Unfortunately, although sporadic work is being done on Linux (actually X11) screen readers, there aren't any out there that work sufficiently well yet. Unfortunately, the X windowing protocols and software were not designed with accessibility in mind. MS Windows is the platform of choice for accessibility, and although there are things like blinux out there, accessibility options for those wishing to use alternative OSs are limited. Apple are good, and MacOS X shows promise in that regard, but Apple Accesibility is unlikely to apply to X windowing, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, I was hoping to avoid a reinstall - it looks like I will have a busy weekend.
Finally, given that the wireless card does work under Knoppix 3.4, can anyone advise me as to what drivers I would be best choosing under Windows 2000?
Regards,
s'ung_q10_owner