mandrake 9.2 or suse 9.0 pro?

[xlilo]

hi, i have three distros, i am useing mandrake but having dificultys getting drivers, should i install suse or redhat or keep mandrake? will the drivers be easyer to fined with suse or redhat? the main drivers i need to work are my creative sound card (this is working with mandrake), nvidia fx 5200 (is working with mandrake also) but mainly my wireless network card d-link g520 h/w b2 (cant fined drivers for mandrake)
thanks,
Xlilo.

[hard candy]

Have you looked at ndiswrapper or Linuxant.com for the wireless card? And I'm sure Suse can use the proprietary nvidia driver, and has drivers for the sound card. You can use either or both with a little work.

[xlilo]

hi, my graphics and sound seem to be working fine now, but i cant fined the wireless driver any were.

[paj12]

Chaces are you're not going to find native Linux drivers for your wireless card. However, you can get ndiswrapper and use the Windows drivers with that.

Check it out here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

[xlilo]

wich distro best serports the rtl8180l wlan?

[xlilo]

forget about the last post i posted, i can use the windows drivers?

[hard candy]

yes, and if the ndiswrapper is unable to work then, www.linuxant.com has a $20 driverwrapper that you can use for free for 30 days.

[paj12]

yes, and if the ndiswrapper is unable to work then, www.linuxant.com has a $20 driverwrapper that you can use for free for 30 days.
I'd try ndiswrapper first. I'm not sold (no pun intended) on the idea of paying $20 simply to make a piece of hardware that YOU bought work. Even for the free trial of Linuxant, you have to give up a ton of information that is none of their business. Grrr... :mad:

From what I've seen, people have had a lot of success with ndiswrapper. Just search for it on the forums and I'm sure you'll find what you need to get everything running.

[xlilo]

thanks again guys,
i swiched to suse 9.0 last nite and i have to say that is is the distro for me, it brill, and i also installed that nvidia grathics driver too, but i cant seem to set up both my monitors on it, sasx only pics up 1 of my monitors, and also it wont let me have 3d grathics (open g or something), have i installed the wrong driver lol?

[paj12]

and also it wont let me have 3d grathics (open g or something), have i installed the wrong driver lol?
For copyright reasons (or something like that) SuSE doesn't ship the 3d-enabled nvidia driver with their distro. It's really easy to get, though. Just fire up YaST, go to Online Update, and run the the fetchnvidia script. It will download and install the nvidia driver all by itself. Then run SaX2 to and enable 3d acceleration to use the new driver.