On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:02, contact51 wrote: > Such a dissapointment. > > Over the recent weeks I have really put in the hours getting to grips with > Linux by way of Fedora, having progressed from FC3-4 and now FC5. > > Being more than satisfied with results until now. Big problem. > > I went and bought a PCMCIA card for my laptop hoping to be able to use it. > And did you do any research to find out if the card is supported under linux? Apparently not or you would have bought a supported card. Instead of blaming linux, blame the card makers who don't (won't) bother to provide linux drivers. > My HDD is divided into two - Windows XP and Fedora 5. > > It took probably about 2 minutes to install the card, up and running under > XP. > > Some six hours later, after reading through numerous internet descriptions > on how one might install such a device, downloading and installing > gigabytes of files, wrappers etc. etc... still nothing! Eventually giving > up in despair I decided that some of my original fears about Linux have to > be correct. It is just a muddle of half cooked amateur computer files > cobbled together to resemmble an OS that probably performs somewhere at > about 60% compared to that of Bill Gates' Windows. > > Over the past years I have tried linux, different flavours, different > version, always the same frustrating result. > > One wonders when the linux comunity will either ever get it right or give > it up as a bad job. > > Such as what by todays technology standards should be such a simple affair, > as Microsoft have proved - plug in and install a PCMCIA wireless card > within three minutes - no typing fingers to the bone wearing out keyboards > in the process, for no result in six hours!!!! Guiness Book of Records > stuff me thinks! If you want some help, try giving some information from which to base that help, such as type of computer, brand and model of PCMCIA wireless card, version of the OS including kernel information, etc. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA
