Another thing that has been done/updated to the 2.5
kernel. You guys do NOT know how to do your research and are requiring
things NOW that is almost impossible to do overnight. Most companies have
not given their HW specs to open source programmers and therefore have to
reverse engineer and take apart windows items in order to get it to even be
possible on Linux. Unfortunately I understand where you guys are coming
from. Especially on WiFi...which i have been learning for the last 6+
months and up until about 2 months it changed almost weekly. Havent dealt
with USB yet since i have been semi unemployed for a while to buy new equipment
but most of this has been completed in 2.5 and semi backported to
2.4.
Rob
-----Original Message-----I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Greenwood
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way.
My .0002c worth.
Cheers
Jason Greenwood
James Sparenberg wrote:
All, <soapbox> Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=3873&forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. </soapbox> <trip> Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. </trip> James
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