Re: WiFi under Linux - rant no 7

Dan C wrote:

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:08:59 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

I repeat, Linux does not do a good job of helping you if you have a
problem with WiFi.

Who ties your shoes for you in the morning?

I hope Bill Gates pays you well for this sort of thing.

Who's Bill Gates, and why would he be paying me?

Because your attitude - that Linux is meant to be difficult,
and that any suggestions it should be made easier are misplaced -
might be designed to put Windows users off trying Linux.

The point of the previous post was to make you realize that there is a
HUGE amount of information about your "problem" right out there on the Web
for you to look at.
It's all right there, easy to find with Google. The
time you've wasted "ranting" about this could have been spent solving the
problem, and you'd be happily surfing the web on wireless, right now.

You obviously didn't read my post very carefully.
I don't actually have a problem, I use WiFi all the time,
and have been doing so for years.

My complaint is that the messages Linux gives you
when trying to set up WiFi are very poor, and unhelpful.


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