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Offline cmckethen

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PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« on: May 16, 2011, 07:47:44 AM »
I am curious since the site for PCLinuxOS says that there are many drivers for wireless devices included if the driver for Realtek 8188CE are included...I am looking to switch from what I have now and I will need my wireless to work out of the box since I will not have access to a wired connection for quite a while. If anyone can tell me if the drivers for this are included it would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2011, 07:58:59 AM »
hello and welcome to the forum!

pclinux is very popular for the out of the box experience

before installing pclinux you can load the livecd and see how the machine works, if it has wifi ootb or not, if it needs a specific video driver and other changes

i don't know if there is a database with the hardware you mentioned listed

if the device doesn't work with what comes in the livecd, if i remember correctly you still can load ndiswrapper and the couple of files required to make it work downloaded from internet or you can have those files on a usb flash drive
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Offline cmckethen

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2011, 08:03:30 AM »
Thank you T6 I will give that a try...if anyone does know of a database that would be nice if for nothing but just plain curiosity...I will give the live CD option a try though
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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2011, 09:32:58 AM »
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Offline cmckethen

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2011, 09:43:24 AM »
Stupid question but I was wanting to use the enlightenment version. It only states the KDE environment there so is that the only one that it will work with out of the box?
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Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2011, 10:10:15 AM »
PCLinuxOS is the same in each version. The E17 version or any other DE version is PCLinuxOS with a different environment.
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Offline cmckethen

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2011, 10:19:49 AM »
Ok thank you
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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2011, 11:56:08 AM »
 ;D PCLinuxOS is a great salad dressing, many flavors and some with more spices.  ;D
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Offline cmckethen

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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2011, 01:49:23 PM »
tried to run as a liveCD as was suggested earlier...not good results and was unable to use ndiswrappers or the standard driver offered on the site from this company...so I have emailed them to see if there is a solution available
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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2011, 03:21:43 PM »
Quote from: cmckethen on May 16, 2011, 01:49:23 PM
tried to run as a liveCD as was suggested earlier...not good results and was unable to use ndiswrappers or the standard driver offered on the site from this company...so I have emailed them to see if there is a solution available

I would suggest you do an actual installation, then add a more recent kernel, ie one of the various 2.6.38.6 versions. The newer the kernel the greater the likelihood that a specific driver for your hardware exists.
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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2011, 07:44:52 AM »
I believe you have to get drivers for Realtek from the repository. that means you would not work out of the box. I don't think it matters which desktop.
that was the case for my Lenovo laptop which uses a Realtek.
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Re: PCLinuxOS and included drivers
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2011, 10:36:46 AM »
Quote from: joec on May 17, 2011, 07:44:52 AM
I believe you have to get drivers for Realtek from the repository. that means you would not work out of the box. I don't think it matters which desktop.
that was the case for my Lenovo laptop which uses a Realtek.

Provided you have enough RAM, you can install the driver in a live session.
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