[Bug 29971] Re: Ubuntu doesn't detect and install my wireless orinoco_usb chipset

[David Gerard]

I'm now having ... intermittent oddness. Sometimes when the DHCP lease runs out, the keyboard stops working. o_0 If I Fn-F2 twice, the wifi picks up a new lease and the keyboard works again. Now, that's what I call a beta ...

I expect putting orinoco_usb in the production Dapper with people expecting this to Just Work would be a *bad* idea. The driver almost certainly needs quite a bit more maturation before being considered production quality.

However, there's still no other way to use a W200 in Linux (except maybe ndiswrapper, which is a fate almost worse than Windows). Giving the user a warning message of caveats if this driver is detected? How clunky ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect and install my wireless orinoco_usb chipset
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29971