Re: Wireless LAN - Now convinced Linux has a LONG way to go.

From: root (root_at_home.com)
Date: 11/26/03

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:05:09 +0000

    On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:47:18 +0000, The Etobian wrote:

    > After installing Linksys adapters in two computers and hooking up the
    > router, it took me exactly five minutes to get the WLAN running in XP.
    >
    > Over the past two or three days, I've gotten a lot of help from these
    > newsgroups, and several methods to try, but I simply cannot get WLAN
    > to work with Linux (SuSE 9.0). Every time I try a new suggestion, it
    > seems I'm getting deeper in the hole. I'm sure if I had Fedora,
    > Debian or Mandrake, I'd run into the same brick wall.
    >
    > While Linux and XP are equal when it comes to wired LANs, XP has the
    > clear advantage over Linux when it comes to WLANs - it actually works,
    > while being straightforward to set up.

    To be fare the wireless lan hardware is supported well by the kernel and
    network tools. Only the configuration cant handle it. Fedora (rehat 10)
    has some GUI tools for wireless cards.

    I use a lot of wireless hardware with linux and it works well - but you
    have to hand configure it, as raw text with an editor. If you are not at
    the experiance level to do that then it would be better to wait for
    desktop tools to catch up. About a year.

    Also a comment on SUSE 9 - looks nice, but that yast thingi is not at a
    windows control panel level yet. Pretty, but not complete !

    Jon

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