On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 20:15 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > John Summerfield writes: > > >> > >> Just telling users to suck it up and use something else instead is very > >> dismissive. > > > > Thanks Chris. > > > > Wireless on Fedora sucks, and it seems it will suck for time to come. > > It is very difficult to defend such a broad, absolute statement. All one > needs is one counterexample, and your assertion is defeated. > > I have two laptops here, with two different Intel wireless chipsets. > > I installed Fedora 7 on box laptops, and wireless worked from the first > boot. Everything's juts peachy. My only complaint is having to enter the > stupid gnome keyring password, every time after logging in, in order to > retrieve the WPA passphrases. This last problem is being worked on in NM-0.7, together with making the connection machine-wide rather than user specific. -- ======================================================================= Life is both difficult and time consuming. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
