Wifi on a 5 yr old compaq using Mint 13, wireless is more stable than windows vista and later.
I did have a DNA issue which was fixed by Ben S. IIRC, it had to do with a static resolv.conf being where a sym-link to another file should be. Perhaps your troubles are specific to your wireless chipset? -Al Sent via mobile device On Dec 30, 2012, at 8:48 AM, "James E. LaBarre" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/27/2012 05:27 PM, Al Jachimiak wrote: >> I'm sure your complaints are valid. >> >> In support of LinuxMint, I've been running 13 as my main machine for over >> six months with very little complain about. The only issue I've found >> problematic was a window management issue in Inkscape - which totally could >> be a Inkscape issue. > > Earlier on during the Mint13 timeframe (into July at least) I couldn't run it > on laptops because something in the wireless networking support was broken > (apparently at the kernel level). Eventually found it would work if I > installed the 3.4.0 kernel instead (Mint13 uses a 3.2.x level kernel). > Eventually later releases of the 3.2.x kernels with Mint13 fixed whatever was > broken in WiFi support. > > Mint14 seems somewhat slower on my machines. Of course, since I had done a > dist-upgrade to bring them there, that may affect the performance (was trying > to get LVM/LUKS support to work, eventually gave up & just encrypted the home > directories). I may want to re-install someday and have the system install a > kernel specific to the hardware instead of a generic kernel (I think I need > to use LMDE to do that). > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it
