[SATLUG] Two questions--Knoppix & Ubuntu

[Don Wright]

On Mon,  7 May 2007 22:57:31 -0500, satlugacct at jchampion.com wrote:

>I'm wondering if maybe it's user error or maybe cd burner error. It's  
>weird...I can't get any live distro to work for some reason. I can get  
>Ubuntu to get on my wifi but have other issues.

Knoppix seems quite hard on CD burners as I've seen from online reports
and personal experience. Use a slower speed and verify the disc with a
different computer, if possible. Check the md5sum of the burned disc
against the knoppix-xxx.iso. If the md5sum of the CD matches the published
one on the mirror site, you should be good to go.

Similar comments apply to other distros, but they seem less picky, perhaps
because knoppix uses a highly compressed file system that is less tolerant
of errors.

WiFi problems often fall into the chasm between proprietary and truly open
drivers. Different distros take different stands on software freedom, so
your hardware will probably work better with some than others, even
without issues of WPA supplicant settings and passphrases versus hex key
strings.  --Don

-- 
Migraine: All the fun of a hangover without the bother of 
getting drunk.  --Dvon, 2006