Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, June 21, 2008 8:33 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
Steve M Bibayoff wrote:
hello,
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gus has mentioned known-to-work USB HW. Anyone else? Drivers for same?
I recommend any:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/devices
and personally like the Fry's brand Airlink101 stuff as it usually
goes on sale at least once a month for around $20. I have the AWLL3055
model which worked as soon as I plugged it in.
The problem Lan is having is that what he has won't work with the 2.6.18
kernel that comes with CentOS 5.1 and he won't switch to Ubuntu.
Ummm, no. That is not Lan's problem. Lan's problem is that Wifi on
Linux is still *broken*. "Change kernel" is *NOT* a valid answer. Ever.
The fault lies with the Linux Wifi developers who all suffer from
cranio-rectal impaction and can't seem to figure out that "Gee ... maybe
we need a stable Wifi API so that people could actually code to that
rather than having to recompile for every stupid kernel version that
changes the interfaces every time. Of course, if we did that, then when
we make stupid changes people will yell at us. And then we'd have to
like ... *test* ... and, you know, that's, like, *work*."
Of course, the Linux USB developers should come in for abuse too. The
lack of stable API is just as bad there.
Yeah, I'm a little grouchy about this. It's time for Linux to grow up
and get some damn regression tests. Of course, it could be the fact
that I've been dealing with the fact that they broke freakin' *MAKE*
from 3.80 to 3.81 and still haven't cleaned up the mess that's pissing
me off.
-a
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