DSL 2.1r2 Report

DSL 2.1rc2 was released on the 13th and with it comes a few more enhancements, but still no wireless for srlinuxx. Sad

There didn't seem to be too many changes afoot this release other than a revamped torsmo look. Should I say a much improved torsmo look? This includes the addition of a laptop/noteboot battery monitor and the listing of your ip addy... provided of course you actually get an ip addy.

My wireless netcard was still inoperable here. I was most disappointed. However using the pcmcia tool in the dsl panel allowed easy switching to a wired card that is supported quite well.

In the menu I saw this online dictionary app that I'd never noticed before. That was fairly neato, as well as the ms word document converter and the graphical search tool.

Sorry so short, but that's about it.

The announcement reads:

DSL 2.1 Release Candidate 2 is now available in the download area here

Change log for RC2
1. Updated Calendar - supports year and full page printing Calendar
2. Improved Torsmo display
3. Torsmo now displays IP
4. Fixed boot error when trying to boot dsl embedded via cdrom
5. Fixed Mountpoint function to correctly handle multiple mounts of the same device
6. Fixed umounting UCI type extensions while running Fluxbox.

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Wifi drivers should be backward compatible to 802.11b ?

Like many other backward compatible drivers Linux often resort to achieving hardware compatibility. WiFi devices are universally detuned to 802.11b. while it is slower, it is very much usable unless you have long data transfers. WiFi manager installs 802.11b only when first released(Linspire Debian). Maybe Srlinuxx can find a driver for the special wireless unit, just install the universally accepted slow 802.11b drivers?