On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 05:47:08PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > > =) I don't use it in production, but I do run it on my primary workstation. > > It's been pretty stable (actually, I'm quite baffled by the number of bug > > reports just because it has been working so well here) > > Lucky you!.... but I've been noticing some very real trends. > Specifically, ATI video cards (especially the mobility) Users that don't > have a full network and the fight against zeroconf and dhcp-client > (seems to have gotten pretty well solved) and anyone on a laptop > especially Compaq's .. 2 out of 3 are byting me in the buns. Update > comes.... I start to get my wireless working.. new update... it goes > south... I'm almost of the opinion that a Mandrake for Laptops would be > well received. And yes if you haven't guessed I've lost wireless > again. Just which I could get the same error from boot to boot. or > even more important find out why it does work on those occasions when it > does. Havent' had it working since 8.0... *sigh*.. Oh well keep > plugging... keep googling...
Well, my primary workstation isn't anything crazy or fancy, nor is it any real new stuff. It's just a workstation... =) I code on it, browse on it, and do my day-to-day rigamarol on it. I don't do multimedia or anything like that, so I'm not, perhaps, an "average" user. =) Don't know about ATI as this machine has an ATI card (some 32MB AGP thing) and a Matrox 2MB PCI card and it works fine as a dual-head machine. I have another machine that I just put cooker on yesterday with a Radeon 8500 in it and it works fine (although I don't play games in Linux, so I couldn't tell you if it was running in 3D or 2D mode). As far as wireless goes, I'm still trying to figure out how in the hell to give it my WEP key so it will connect wirelessly on a Toshiba Satellite I have. I'm convinced the wireless tools packages sucks as I've never been able to get it to work (without WEP, yes, but never with WEP enabled). I'm baffled how Linux can be so superior in some areas, but in this it just stinks. =) Doing WEP in Win2k was pretty easy with the PCMCIA card manufacturer's tools, and in OS X it was a breeze. But Linux, ever the struggle (however, truth be told, I've not run any other distro but Mandrake on it). But, since I don't really use that machine, it's not that big of an issue for me. Apparently some people have gotten WEP to work, and I'd love to know the black magic of how they did it. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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