I was going to say, "You might want to give F10 another chance" but
not really sure how NetworkManager is faring these days. My notebook's
on Windows, too, but I somehow got F10 to work on it.
One of my desktop PC's on F10, and my seven-year-old kid loves it. The
wife misses Photoshop, though, so she works solely on the Windows
desktop. (Unfortunately {?}, no Macs in this household.) :P
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 23:26, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sadly, that was not my experience. Make no mistake -- the ipw2100
> driver loaded properly.
>
> It's just that NetworkManager could not associate with the AP on many,
> many cases, leaving me to type and re-type the WPA shared key many
> many times.
>
> One time I was in SG and I desperately needed the wireless to work
> (was in training, needed to access a remote box) and it wouldn't work.
> That REALLY pissed me off.
>
> Maybe it's gotten better.. but then again I use Windows on my notebook
> these days. (and two notebooks is too much for my back)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jerome Gotangco <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, John Peter Loh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 16:43, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Personally I've soured on the Linux desktop (after many years of using
>>>> a Linux desktop... starting with Slackware 3.0) because support for
>>>> Intel Wireless is so cranky / unreliable!
>>>
>>> The ipw2100 firmware and driver is already included in many distros as
>>> a kernel module. Wireless for my laptop works out of the box on
>>> Fedora. It's probably the same for drivers of the other Intel wifi
>>> network adapters.
>>
>> Yeah so far, Network Manager has been pretty stable lately.
>
>
>
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