Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:59 +0100, koffiejunkie wrote:
J Sloan wrote:
Clark Sann wrote:
Wifi still doesn't work as well as it should under Linux but it is
usable. (What it should do is let you be connected to a wired
connection at the same time you are connected via wifi, just like
windoze does.)
If you get one of these and need any help, let me know.
Clark
LOL, "just like windoze"... sheesh. Well, it's good to hear that windoze
can finally handle that sort of thing too.
Windows has been able to do this for years. At least from 98, if not 95.
No, software config apps written specially for the wifi card has been
working for years on Windows - not the default windows wifi apps - they
still dont work on my Dell D820 (configured by Dell out of the box).
Whether or not wifi works/worked in windows is not what I commented on.
Clark Sann wrote:
> (What it should do is let you be connected to a wired
> connection at the same time you are connected via wifi, just like
> windoze does.)
J Sloan wrote:
> LOL, "just like windoze"... sheesh. Well, it's good to hear that
> windoze can finally handle that sort of thing too.
koffiejunkie wrote:
> Windows has been able to do this for years. At least from 98,
> if not 95.
Weather it's the default windows app or a third party app, I've never
ever had my wired connection disconnected in Windows simply because I
connected the wireless, or had my working wireless disconnected simply
because I plugged my network cable in.
But this is what NetworkManager does. Which is real annoying, for
instance, at home I have a network cable between my Mac and linux
notebook. The notebook is hooked up to my external drive (which is has
ext3 fs), which is shared via samba so that the mac (which has the big
screen and good speakers) can access my music and movies. I prefer this
to go over the crossover cable, since playing 1080p movies, for example,
struggles somewhat over wireless. All the while, internet is provided
via wireless, so I need both Mac and notebook to be using the wireless
for that.
So when i switch on the notebook, and log in, it connects automatically
to wireless. Plug in the network cable, wait for DHCP to fail,
reconnect to wireless, then configure the wired by hand (I can't give it
a permanent static IP because i need it to be a DHCP client just about
everywhere else). Quite a hassle - silly really.
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