Hey Sebastian I see where you are coming from but, the fact remains that there is 'NO BUG TO FIX'. All that is required is that the old driver is re-instated in the basic build - something that works does not need fixing - a heap of junk that stops people using the complete system needs throwing away not fixing. What pray was the point of a new driver anyway for an old chip set - I am lost for an explanation. How much is spent on developing Ubuntu - the real costs must be astronomical - yet all that money is wasted if you can't use the system. Upgrades to Gnome, Open Office, Firefox - these are all irrelevant if you cant log on. A basic need is to link to the internet (hence web books) without that the whole computer is a useless pile of junk. I have to say I am torn between paying for a new wireless card and dumping Ubuntu all together.
I will try six packs recipe for loading the dedicated driver but, if that fails it will be goodbye Ubuntu. What a pity, it is such a brilliant OS. But my main requirement is the web and I can't do it without constantly crashing. I hope this will make it abundantly clear to Canonical why they misspend their resources - it is the basic things that need to be right - not the bells and whistles - hence, the enduring popularity of Debian. I know how geeks are, they only want to work on the bells and whistles - but it is basics that pay the bills. I would not pay $20 to fix this bug - I would put the cash towards a new wireless card which would cost about $20. If I wasn't retired, I would have paid for a new one already. In fact, I think I will make the jump into Geekdom and install Debian instead. How hard, will it be to suss out the driver installation and have a usable system? One that always makes operability rather than frills its basic requirement. Regards Vici Sebastian Urban wrote: > @Canonical: > > How much money would we have to pay to get this bug fixed? > We all like Ubuntu, know that it is an open source project and development > resources are expensive. A lot of people seem to be affected. So if everybody > pays, say $ 20, will this be enough to hire a developer to fix this problem? > Perhaps we can open a "shared" support request. > > -- [Hardy] Low bandwidth with rt2400 / rt2500 drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190515 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
