On 12/26/2010 11:36 AM, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Subject: > Thoughts of a user > > 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing > (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all > those things are built for functionality with Windoze, and that many > manufacturers don't make their own Linux drivers, but even with the > correct drivers it doesn't often work. I feel it should be on the > forefront of the developers attention to make wifi work more easily - on > all machines. Wireless computing is getting more and more popular, and > is the future for the internet. So if Linux wishes to survive (sorry to > put it so strongly), it is important that wifi works as easily as when > installing Windoze. It doesn't; check the forums, check google. Few > issues are so frequent. > > 3) Hardware management: su -, lshw, isn't good enough a hardware manager > for the average user. A new app should be developed that looks better > and is interactive. Enable and disable certain hardware should be an > option. Finding manufacturer's details of driver-less hardware is a > must. Aida32 springs to mind, XP's Device Manager springs to mind. GUI, > interactive. This is necessary to appeal to the average user - ie. me. > And while we're at it, try and make the wifi-card enableable through > this app; rfkill unblock all doesn't always do it. > Hi there, I agree with Ben on these 2 points.... My son just gave his daughter a Netbook & the 2 of us spent a couple of hours trying to get it (and his Kindle) to link up to my wireless Lan. I used (in the evil dayz of Windoze...) to have McAffee on the system with its network manager which would at least draw me a pretty picture of what was visible/up/down on the LAN. Sadly, it could never offer me anything like a "logging in check" where it could tell me "Ok, step 1 works & gives me this result; step 2 gives me No Reply...." & so on. To know where I am in a logon scheme would be a great help. Managing hardware is IMMHO yeuk! You plug it in & Most Times It Just Works.... sometimes, it doesn't! Where do you go from there? Is there anywhere a Helpful, Friendly Piece Of Script that I can access without spending days hunting through Gooogle???? Yes, Mr Gates Hardware manager, with its enable/disable/uninstall does seem to be a long step from that which I, as a not-very-experienced Fedorious, can find.... BTW, anyone know if Computer Literacy still have their Quick Card of 'nix commands? (Think I gave away my last one about 20 years ago....) TTFN DAve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
