On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 18:04 +1000, john hedge wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm afraid my wifi (lan is running fine) experience with Dapper is the > same as this fellows. > http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html > > Has anyone had better luck? Ive have run Dapper with a number of wireless devices, from pci to pcmcia to built in laptop models to a netgear usb device, and they have all worked out of the box. Atheros was the first one I tried, no problem there at all! I have a D-link wireless router that has an Atheros chip and the firmware is a Linux OS !! Im yet to find wireless stuff that does not work natively with Dapper, and if I do then there is always ndiswrapper. So yeah, my experience has been all positive and I wonder how anyone could argue that Linux lacks in the wireless department, for me it all works and all works out of the box, unlike my friends who still insist on using their legacy OS.
As for the article, the author admits at the very begining that he has no experience with ubuntu or Linux other than a few hours on a Suse box a couple of years ago, the points he makes would be over come (in the gui as he suggests!) if he just asked a user familiar with the distro, Im sure he asked many questions before he knew how to do this stuff in Doze. This guy actually thinks that Doze is easier to set up networking than Ubuntu ... come on, thats one I just cant cop, I have had to show people how to use both, and the Ubuntu users only have to be shown once, where as the Doze users come back several times, and all users are non geeks btw. (Ive even been running a few winmodems in Ubuntu too, just to press the point) Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
