On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:14 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > David Boles wrote: > > > > > Do you know of, can you name, another distro where "Wireless" does not > > "sucks"? Just curious here because I thought that this a Linux, in > > general, driver problem caused by proprietary drivers and not just the > > fault of Fedora. > > > I know that Ubuntu went to considerable trouble to get Ubuntu working > well on laptops a two or three releases ago. I do not know the status of > wireless on Ubuntu, but I suspect it's been better in other respects > (power management, hibernation) on laptops for a while. Ubuntu uses the same wireless software as Fedora, except it is 6 months behind in the version number. 10.4 is the same as f7. > > I know wireless on opensuse 10.2 sucks pretty badly, but I really can't > say whether other distros do it better or worse. > > Not knowing, I crossed out Linux and substituted Fedora. > > > In this case, I'm assuming working drivers; I have Atheros-based cards > and I can get a working driver for them. Having done that, on Fedora, > wireless still sucks. > > And my statement is an observation, not an attribution of blame. > Attributing blame just gets arguments, but anyone who extols the wonders > of Linux wireless networking to a Windows or OS X user deserves derision. My university suddenly switched from WEP + LEAP to WPA+PEAP. NM made the change flawlessly in f7. To do that in Windows took a major set of instructions. -- ======================================================================= Beware of a tall black man with one blond shoe. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
