Dream Linux

I just downloaded it today and gave it a test drive.

I need ndiswrapper to work with a wireless card. Well, ndiswrapper ran OK and I installed the .inf file. ndiswrapper -m ran fine.

But, modprobe ndiswrapper said "Fatal Module ndiswrapper not found"

My second wireless adapter (uses the rt2570 chipset) wouldn't work either (driver not in distro).

So much for getting on the internet (and I can get either one of these adapters to work in SimplyMEPIS).

Just for the heck of it, I tried to install my HP Printer (PSC1400). No luck. Printer driver database is way out of date. It looks about the same way some of the other distros looked last year (and a lot of work apparently went into SimplyMEPIS to work with newer printers during the 3.4.x development chcle).

Conclusion:

If I have nothing better to do, I'll try it again after their next major release.

I'm not going to spend hours and hours trying to get a wireless adapter and printer working, when they do work in a number of other distros.

Jim C.

I also couldn't get my wireless going either. I didn't try my all in one printer. Dreamlinux may be a nice base to build from but still needs some work. Anytime you start to take the Mepis dev's work for granted. Go out and try some other distros. You'll soon appreciate all the little things that are done to make Mepis what it is.

Chris

Yes I am a mepis user & I love mepis, it is my fav distro, but after I tryed dreamlinux I was just amazed at everything that came already bundled inside of this OS like most of the main video codecs to play mostly all of the video formats including wmv & in mepis I always have to ad the video codecs. They must have worked very hard on the look because it just looks really slick and cool to me. I do not know why you guys had problems getting your ethernet & wireless cards to work because thank God mine worked & I am not using any expensive special name brand anything it worked like a charm on an intergrated motherboard with sis video & AC97 sound card intergrated on this cheap soyo motherboard & not to mention the generic Via Rhine II Fast Ethernet Card which is intergrated & my other one which is a pci card that I added just incase this one did not work which is a (Macronix MX98715 Ethernet card. I am typing at this moment using dreamlinux inside a virtual machine using parallels workstation in windows xp. I simply love Dreamlinux it works seamless & without any major flaws that I could tell except one small one which was,---> it sometimes would not close the Mplayer media player & I had to open it again so then there were two mplayers basicly running at the same time. It has the best looking interface,Icons & everything else that I have ever saw inside of any Linux Distro. I also Loved that it was not hard to get to know and use because it basicly looked like a windows machine which made it easy to mount my hard drives which I loved because being a windows user all of my life and now also a linux user I always loved that ease of use inside of windows being able to just click on the hard drives and not have to mount first like in Linux distros then open up inside of a disk manager, yes in dream linux I had to mount my drives also, but it was easier for some reason because all I had to do was right click on my drive and choose mount and I was done & using my drive. I think this is one of the best just like mepis expecially for somebody new to linux. It even came with a dvd ripper, come on you cannot ask for better. I think dream linux is one of the best like mepis & I like it a little bit more then Mepis hands down. Oh people it played every video format streaming and on my hard drive that I could send to it, thats what I really loved because I did not have to go through hell like I have to just to look at video on any other Linux distro, shoot Dreamlinux has more codecs already inside of it then windows and mac put together. People try it because you will be delighted. Have Fun fellow computer geeks!

This is an old post, so I am locking it.

Jon

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