Hy! I want to share you my experience with the driver thing...
I bought an usb 3g modem... It took about five minutes to me to install it under ubuntu... I put it in, nothing happened... so I looked it's device id with lsusb and googled for that... the solution came up and, after some copy-paste process, I can use my modem trough network manager a smooth way integrated into the system... (what don't needed any additional configuration, what I done that to setup usb_modeswitch and udev to switch the device into the good mode if I connect it) Some time I had to install the same device on a windows xp machine.. Windows installed about 3 or 4 drivers... then I get a virtual cd thing where I can install it's manager application what will switch the modes and manages the connections... after it's installation I had to restart windows... what first missed to switch the device somehow... after the second restart and another 4 or 5 installing hardware messages... I can used the device... that toked about 15 minutes... Finally I installed it in windows 7... the controller application hacks it's window border (I can't see why, there isnt any special) and looks like on xp... ugly... and what worst if it runs... windows if falling back to moving windows (any) with only an empty border... So I thank god that I can happily use it on linux and not need to deal with that shit... The devices is supported on windows and mac... not on linux... And if any other devices not supported on linux... it is a fault of linux, that the manufacturer is too lazy to make another driver, not only for windows? -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. Status in Club Distro: Invalid Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: In Progress Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Invalid Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: In Progress Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Debian: Confirmed Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: New Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
