Re: WiFi under Linux - rant no 7
- From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:13:02 +0000
ray wrote:
Why is WiFi configuration under Linux so painful
and time-consuming?
Jeez - I don't know why you had such difficulty. I plugged a Belkin
wireless card into my laptop, followed a couple of simple steps to set up
ndiswrapper, and voila - there it was. No hassle, no fuss, took about
three minutes. I've done this with Elive, (K)Ubuntu, and Suse.
So, you were lucky.
But what were the "couple of simple steps"?
What would you have done if those steps had not worked?
It really shows a lack of imagination to say
"What problem? It works fine on my completely different computer,
with a completely different WiFi card."
It is obvious from reading this newsgroup
that many people _do_ have problems setting up WiFi.
And in my opinion Linux is very, very bad at helping them.
When my car has broken down,
I do not find it much help for a spectator to say,
"I don't know what you are worrying about.
My car is working fine."
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