John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:22:57PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> In my opinion, it would be more polite to say something > > I'll take no advice on politeness from you. You have shown yourself to > be quite determined to twist whatever I say to suit your preconceived > notions and to attempt to paint me as some sort of maniacal BOFH. I haven't twisted anything you said. I don't think you are a maniacal BOFH. I do think you were - and are - rather arrogant in your approach to Linux users. You snipped the essential point I was making. Why not just answer it, instead of going off at a tangent? -------------------------------------------------- > IF YOU NEED WIRELESS AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TRY, THEN TRY > NetworkManager FIRST. To start with, I imagine most people reading such advice would already have tried to set up WiFi, since that is probably the first thing laptop owners do, particularly if they are coming from Windows. In my opinion, it would be more polite to say something along the following lines: "If you haven't already tried to set up WiFi, I suggest you try NM first. If you have already tried other methods, which didn't work, they may have created files or started programs which will interfere with NM, so: 1. Make sure wpa_supplicant is not running. 2. Check that the file ifcfg-<if> in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ does not contain the line ONBOOT=no . 3... 4... " -------------------------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
