Guest NoobToast Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Yo, im looking at buying an MSI wind, pretty much what i want to do is wipe windows, and put either Mandriva or Ubuntu on it. I know Ubuntu is having problems getting it to work, and i dont want to go through the hassle of installing a new wireless card. So im leaning towards Mandriva...What im wondering is does in work out of the box, like does the wifi work, bluetooth, web cam, etc...and what ill have to do to get them to work if they dont work out of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't have MSI Wind (yet?), but I have seen here threads describing issues with the wireless card. Here are two examples: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=71224 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=68434 I read somewhere that MSI changed the card somewhere along the way, and some of the devices work out of the box, and some of them require tweaking. If I were you, I would try to run from the Live CD (both Ubuntu and Mandriva, maybe even other distros) in the store, before the purchase, to make sure it works. But it requires some convincing of the store manager, I would say. Good luck, let us know how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NoobToast Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 (edited) I found this handy dandy link, its for ubuntu, but its a list of drivers compiled for the wind, that way i dont have to go into the innards of the top to get the internet working. http://forums.msiwind.net/debian/rtl8187se...ages-t4954.html Edited November 13, 2008 by NoobToast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest handzilla Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 hello from the Philippines! i just installed mandriva 2009 on my msi wind and was able to get the wireless connectivity to work out of the box, but only after manually specifying the SSID, encryption type (WPA-PSK), and key... Don't know why yet, but scanning for available wireless networks is not working even though SSID broadcast on both Linksys and D-Link router is enabled. Nevertheless, the wireless connectivity works great! Thanks to everyone at Mandriva... and also MSI! Great job, guys (and girls)!! Best regards to one and all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 good for you. my solution was to downgrade the encryption of my router to WEP which is relatively safe in my neighborhood. :-| ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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