f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 11 14:45:53 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:14 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you know of, can you name, another distro where "Wireless" does not
> > "sucks"? Just curious here because I thought that this a Linux, in
> > general, driver problem caused by proprietary drivers and not just the
> > fault of Fedora.
>
>
> I know that Ubuntu went to considerable trouble to get Ubuntu working
> well on laptops a two or three releases ago. I do not know the status of
> wireless on Ubuntu, but I suspect it's been better in other respects
> (power management, hibernation) on laptops for a while.
Ubuntu uses the same wireless software as Fedora, except it is 6 months
behind in the version number. 10.4 is the same as f7.
>
> I know wireless on opensuse 10.2 sucks pretty badly, but I really can't
> say whether other distros do it better or worse.
>
> Not knowing, I crossed out Linux and substituted Fedora.
>
>
> In this case, I'm assuming working drivers; I have Atheros-based cards
> and I can get a working driver for them. Having done that, on Fedora,
> wireless still sucks.
>
> And my statement is an observation, not an attribution of blame.
> Attributing blame just gets arguments, but anyone who extols the wonders
> of Linux wireless networking to a Windows or OS X user deserves derision.
My university suddenly switched from WEP + LEAP to WPA+PEAP.
NM made the change flawlessly in f7. To do that in Windows took a major
set of instructions.
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