Sunday, February 24, 2008

Damn it you Philips! SNU5600 and Ubuntu, Mandrake, Debian!

Anyway, my hdd on my home computer gave up and sadly all my data got lost. So the last 4 days i've been trying to get my computer working again. My USB Wireless adapter (Philips SNU5600) is just not made for linux. I can't figure out how did it work the last time. It must be the massive amounts of updates that resulted it to work without any driver installations. Sadly, it's a pain in the arse to have a dual boot system and switching after every download.

Another comment to this matter would be the problem that debian net-install does not support usblan at all, at least i could not figure out how. The old Mandrake 10 has a too old kernel so it suggests my wlan device is a scanner. Sad.

Anyway, if i find a way, i'll definitely write about it.

J