> We need solutions for this problem. All persons won't buy boxes from > Tesco and so it is necessary that we have to support the commonly > available wireless cards, even if the manufacturer is not supporting > Linux. Difficult task to achieve .. but that is the way forward. If > the number of linux users increase, the manufacturers will be forced > to use their resources to make them compatible with linux. I seriously don't get why people 'think everything just works' in Windows... I bought a USB wireless interface for a friend earlier this year. A well know brand, Belkin, a Ralink chipset inside, with big XP compatible stickers on the box. Should take 5 minutes to get it working... Plugged it in, installed the drivers from the enclosed CD and viola... a semi functioning wireless connection that couldn't see half the networks in the area that my laptop could, and dropped out every couple of minutes...
Rubbish... uninstall/reinstall/download new drivers via my laptop (handy)/ uninstall/install new drivers/then fiddle some more/etc... Stuff may well work in the end on Windows, but it isn't always easy... Don't get me started on the saga of getting my old scanner to work on 2000... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
