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Monday, December 26, 2005

Linuxant!

Well, that was fun :). This is my first post from Linux. I was finally able to get my wireless lan card up and running. It will cost me $20, but I suppose that's more worth it than dragging cable up here from two floors below, or continuing to throw money M$'s way. Linuxant is an awesome tool for wireless drivers in Linux. It was able to use my windows driver, no problems. I tried a couple of free/open-source programs first, but they did not work :(. Given more time I probably could have made them work, but for now I'd rather spend my time using Linux. Anything else I might have put the time into, but an internet problem is 10x worse because whenever you run into a roadblock it's reboot into Windows to get online.

4 Comments:

  • Grats Scott! I'm glad your Linux install went smooth (except for the bad install CD). I don't know much about Linuxant, but I'm glad it was able to get you up and running quickly. Anything other than PCMCIA wireless under Linux can be a pain.

    Good luck with the rest of it ... getting familiar with it, etc. :)

    By Blogger Joe, at 9:15 PM  

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    By Blogger Scott, at 5:22 PM  

  • Thanks :). Takes a little getting used to, but I mostly use my computer for the internet lately anyhow, so there's not much I can do in Windows but not in Linux.
    My boss mentioned the Mono Project and IDE to me, which is an open source implementation of ASP.NET/C# and is available for Linux. Looks like I won't even need to go to Windows for that :).

    By Blogger Scott, at 5:22 PM  

  • Yeah, the mono project is really neat. I was using Mono/C#/GTK#/MonoDevelop for one of my projects (CodeConnector, currently in stasis). I had done a lot of work on the project a few years ago and recently took a look back at it and a lot of the GTK# API had changed and it was really annoying getting it working again.

    By Blogger Joe, at 6:54 PM  

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