Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Nov 14 02:12:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:31 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>I haven't bothered trying to use the GUI with my iwl4965 and WEP.  I
>just expect NM to not work when it comes to WEP.

I have 4965 and it worked fine for me with KNetworkManager and WEP in 
Hardy.  I have't had a need for WEP since I upgraded to Intrepid.

As an aside, if people are truly concerned about privacy/security, they 
should be on WPA.  WEP is trivial to break.

Scott K




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