Linked by Adam S on Tue 25th Mar 2003 00:52 UTC
Knowing that ArkLinux is the offspring of Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer (interview here), a former Red Hat employee and KDE hacker, should make it one of the more interesting and, arguably, credible new Linux distributions to hit the streets in recent seasons. With the rise of Lycoris, Lindows, and Xandros, among others, Ark Linux is certainly a far cry from a surefire success. Let's take a look.
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What kind of wifi card were you trying to get to work? It seems a bit unfair to list it's incompatibility as a demerit to this distribution without even stating if it is supported by Linux in general. The most commonly available cards which are supported by Linux are ones based on Prisms, but more and more cards seem to be based on other chipsets, and some of the supposed safe cards aren't even safe anymore (i.e., the D-Link 650, which used to be a Prism was "revised" into a new card using a TI chipset, and TI won't release any documentation without an NDA and even then to hardware developers only). Other cards, like the 22mbps ones (by D-Link and a few others), also use a closed TI chipset, and I don't think *any* of the 802.11g cards coming out currently support Linux either (though I haven't really looked into it), not even with binary-only drivers. So unless you know for a fact that Linux the kernel supports your card, it really doesn't seem fair to insist that Ark Linux supports it.