Renjith Nair wrote: > Hi David, > > You are not the only one with wireless issues on Ubuntu. I have helped > several people to get their wireless working on Ubuntu.. After several > hours of tweaking when it finally start working, they make a statement > that ' it is so easy to do this stuff in windows' . Linux users may > not necessarily agree with this statement, but for an average person > this is so true. > > Wireless networking is an issue which needs some sorting out from main > developers in ubuntu. I would say that they have done quite well in > supporting some of the wireless cards, but still there are some gaps > to be filled in . Some of the USB wireless cards especially with > Ralink chipsets are having some problems in Ubuntu. You may need third > party drivers ( for e.g serialmonkey drivers) to get it running. Even > after that, you may experience some problems regarding the ehci_hcd > support (module for USB 2.0) . This hasn't been sorted out yet and > this is an area we need to focus on. > > If we can't support the common man, ubuntu will not succeed. Before > thinking a lot about advertisements (TV, BBC, Newspaper) we need to > sort out these basic issues or atleast make the main developers/ > bug-solvers to look into this matter. If you look into the forums, you > can see that these are ongoing problems for the past releases too and > it was never solved completely, even though there has been some > progress. > > To have said this, we need to also understand that Ubuntu cannot > support all wireless cards available in the market as it is a > herculian task. But atleast we make sure that the commonly available > cards like Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, edimax etc are supported. We > can't just blame the manufacturers for not making the linux drivers > and leave issues like that. 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 agree to this statement from davis "It does not matter how good the > distro is, without the internet, email and printing, the operating > system has little value" > > Regards, > renjith > > On 10/29/07, *davisjo* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I like Ubuntu, I think it is the best distro and the highest quality. > > I would also like to see the profile of Ubuntu raised in the > market place but feel there are some issues in Ubuntu that need > addressing. > > I have attended night school to learn Ubuntu basics but still > cannot get my wireless card to work or print something of any > value. Mandriva has been the easiest to configure with a wireless > card. > > Windows, whether we like it or not is simple. I have read all the > info in the Wiki about connecting wirelss cards etc but to no > avail. I am doing something wrong but in the absence of friends > etc, how do I resolve this problem ? > > I would prefer Ubuntu to resolve the problems of connectivety even > if that means a small charge for each distro to cover the cost of > commercial software.Or maybe reduced charge telephone support for > home users. > > It does not matter how good the distro is, without the internet, > email and printing, the operating system has little value. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > Currently the only wireless chipset that is a problem is the Broadcom bcm43xx . The bcm43xx driver is getting better all the time and ndiswrapper helps. But its all ok anyway because everything that needs wifi is going smaller and more Intel.
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