Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sun Nov 9 20:53:55 UTC 2008


On Sunday 09 November 2008 15:07, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
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> network. Some of them work in a release, some of them in another. In the
> end, you never see your laptop "just working" in a single release.

Oddly enough, for me, my Dell Latitude D430 laptop (not one of the ones that 
is pre-sold with Ubuntu) has 'just worked' in Gutsy, Hardy, and Intrepid.  

I don't doubt you've had problems, but it's not safe to over-generalize.

Scott K




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