[nzlug] Xandros 4.1 Professional and RT2400 wireless adaptor

[Steve Withers]

Upgraded to this new versionof Xandros in order to get a good desktop
distro with kernel 2.6.18 (for connecting my SONY DSC-HS5 digital
camera).

No problems other than: 

The install, by default, deploys the SMP version of the 2.6.18 kernel.
But my driver for my RT2400-based DSE wireless adaptors does not support
SMP. 

So each time I enabled the network, it would run for a few seconds or a
minute then fail....and the system would hang....and when I re-booted
the system would hang on startup. 

So I re-installed (simplest, fastest way out) and used the packages CD
(supplied) to install the uni kernel BEFORE enabling the network. 

Having done that, all works perfectly. 

The rt2400 is 802.11b and the driver authors made a decision not to fix
the SMP on it as any SMP system in real life would be unlikely to use an
old (3 years) wireless adaptor.