On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Timothy Murphy 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.

Well, if you do not like it you are free to fix it.

Right now I would rather have them:

a) fixing bugs like:
- 0.1.14 system hangs
- 0.1.13 timing issues
b) adding necessry features like:
- WEP
- Infrastructure Maste mode

This is alpha software which is under development. When the version
gets beta I am sure the will be documentation.

> I find it astonishing that in writing that
> the authors did not think it worth-while explaining clearly
> how to use their software.

For me README was clear enough. I guess that if the soft is alpha
and you do not know how to use it - don't, wait until it is OK.

> 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 .

OK. Read the archives. 

> 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.

The USB list is as of April 15th. But this is changing rapidly.
Just read the archives.

> (I have a Sony 802.11 card which works with orinoco_cs,
> even though I have seen no mention of it anywhere.)

Probably because nobody else has it. But AFAIR Sony is identical to 
Orinoco - they even look the same.

Then the comments on the list for Orinoco client apply.

I guess I have nothing else to say about it.

BR,

Jacek


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