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Aaaargh, gotta figure out how to get wireless cards working under Linux (Mandriva 2006 and Fedora Core 5). Mandriva has given me a nice list of empty textboxes and is asking me to fill them in with stuff I have no idea about. The Help button, as is usual on many varieties of Linux, doesn't work. Of course, it makes no difference as it identified the card wrongly and probably won't work. I wonder if FC5 will do any better. The less time I have, the less I like Linux. I don't have the time to spend hours searching for secret command line incantations to get any hardware younger than 2 years old to work.

(Side issue: the morons at Linksys expect a model number and a version number for you to download updates and support for their hardware - shame the version number doesn't appear to exist anywhere on their packaging.)

How annoying.

EDIT: I ran the 'ndiswrapper' which lets you use Windows drivers in the absence of a Linux one. It all installed as expected, but it failed to initialise the Windows driver, without even giving an error message in the logs. Aaaargh.

PS. The new Iron Maiden album is boring as hell.