On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:42:07PM -0700, Jacek Pliszka wrote: > > Perhaps their time would have been better spent > > documenting their own software ... > > Man, stop bitching about it. Folks do it in their free time, > nobody pays them for doing it and you are bitching ?
I was probably more snide than I should have been, but I think your comment is very dangerous. It suggests that Linux should accept second-best because it is open software. In my experience Linux documentation is generally far superior to that provided by Microsoft (though less well organised). Incidentally, the prism2 code contains over 20,000 lines. I find it astonishing that in writing that the authors did not think it worth-while explaining clearly how to use their software. (I wonder if the somewhat forbidding XML/docbook LDP format -- while an excellent idea in itself -- doesn't put some people off writing documentation as they develop their programs.) I'm currently using (or tesing) 3 wireless "formats" -- 802.11, Bluetooth (bluez) and Proxim (rl2mod). The bluez documentation is a model of how it should be done (infinitely better than the corresponding MS docs), and the rl2mod documentation is also excellent. So the fact that people are writing software "for free" certainly does not mean it cannot be properly documented. > There are more important issues right now than documentation. > Especially for owners of cards which are not meant to be supported by > the software. On a small point -- I don't think it is at all clear from the web-pages you point to (apart from your own) that the Orinoco USB Client does not work with linux-wlan-ng . As far as I can see, they list devices for which it is known to work, and explicitly state that the list is not up-to-date. (I have a Sony 802.11 card which works with orinoco_cs, even though I have seen no mention of it anywhere.) Timothy Murphy e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
