Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

2017-08-23 Thread Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk
Warm greetings to GTALUG, Comments below. (apologies for the messy format -- due to ancient Microsoft Outlook Express...) Steve - Original Message - From: "CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem On

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

2017-08-23 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk
On 2017-08-23 06:11 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Hi all. Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard. This is a red herring. The reason why Linux desktops have not caught on has nothing to do

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

2017-08-23 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the > reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard. > > I have a RPi Model B running current Raspian, and a wifi dongle that claims

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

2017-08-23 Thread James Knott via talk
On 08/23/2017 06:11 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the > reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard. > I've never had a problem getting networking to run on Linux. In fact, I find it's better than Win

[GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

2017-08-23 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
Hi all. Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard. I have a RPi Model B running current Raspian, and a wifi dongle that claims to run on it. `lsusb` reports it as Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:7601 Ralin