[wplug] Knoppix Live CD on MacBook Pro

Vendicate vendicate at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 22:27:56 EDT 2006


Is the wireless driver included...probably not...thts wht i am
after...i guess i will have to edit a linux live cd

On 7/11/06, Greg Simkins <gregsim at telerama.com> wrote:
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>
> Thanks Todd for your suggestion at the Installfest this past Saturday.
>
> I brought my MacBook Pro to fool around with.  I had already installed
> BootCamp and XP Pro.  Todd suggested that I try a live CD.  Beth Lynn handed
> us a copy of Knoppix.  The Bootcamp bootloader provided a selection menu so
> I could choose the Knoppix CD.  Knoppix loaded fine, but the Knoppix version
> that BethLynn provided didn't have a driver for the NIC so we couldn't
> access the Internet.  Todd suggested downloading the latest Knoppix -
> perhaps it would have the proper NIC driver.
>
> I ran out of time on Saturday, but today I finally downloaded Knoppix 5.0.1,
> burned a boot disk in OS X and it worked fine.  I was able to load Knoppix
> 5.0 and access the Internet.
>
> Greg
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