I switched back to CrunchBang 9.04, and the wifi is working fine again
(as it has all along with several other notebooks I use). I stick with
WEP since I still use some older devices like WinCE and 16-bit wifi PC
cards that cannot do WPA, and I live in a very low-density area, and
can see if any "suspicious" characters are in the neighborhood to be
concerned about - the 4 neighbors within range don't have the tech savvy
and/or low ethics to hack my WEP, so it keeps out the casual connections
that depend on no encryption. I might reconsider that policy if I do
away with the old gear completely (or set up 1 older WEP router just for
them leaving it off whenever I do not use them ... hmmm ... liking that
idea).
I have tried Xubuntu 10.04 on more powerful notebooks, and performance
and wifi are ok, but other deficiencies exist vs earlier versions - i.e.
they do not come back from suspend reliably, and on one of the
notebooks I just found that the file manager and Ristretto cannot drill
down into the DCIM directory on a 2GB SD card to find/show the jpg files
from a digital camera, but putting the same card into a notebook I
reverted to Xubuntu 9.10 showed the files just fine.
It is looking as though 10.04, overall, needs another month or 2 of
real-world post-beta debugging, as usual with Ubuntu's hurried up
releases. I will check back then ...
Regards,
RO
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