Re: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-06 Thread Martoni
On Apr 6, 2005 5:32 AM, Matthew Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Netgear used to make decent network cards, but that stopped 3-4 years ago.To my knowledge, linksys and dlink never had a great reputation to beginwith. Usually our Netgear stuff works. What actually broke was DLink switches. We were

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
How else do we know about problem hardware and vendors with Linux - if it is fixable we get to know about it, if not we find out why and gain from that. Is this gentoo relevant? Yes and no - such publicity is what makes manufacturers sit up and take notice and gentoo as well as linux in general wi

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew Marlowe
>> > Allthough I am not sure this is the best place for a personal rant against >> > some company, I am sorry to hear of your bad luck. >> >> Maybe not, but here is another one that is a prime example of why not to >> trust netgear: >> I'm not sure that it's reasonable to signle out netgear her

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-05 Thread Spider
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:43 -0700, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Grant: > > I've been screwed over by Netgear for being a Linux user and I need to > > spread the word. I've been having a seriously difficult time getting > > my Gentoo machines reliably connected to my wireless network for > > alm

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-05 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Grant: > I've been screwed over by Netgear for being a Linux user and I need to > spread the word. I've been having a seriously difficult time getting > my Gentoo machines reliably connected to my wireless network for > almost 6 months. The software end of things is finally rock solid a