Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ....... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of "awareness" in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. As for how long it takes.... I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better "laptop" OS?
James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:03, Robert Wideman wrote: > 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----- > 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 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. > > 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=vi > ewtopic&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 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
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