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]

On Thursday 13 November 2008 22:43, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:12 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I know that, but until about two months ago, the network in the computer
> science department at school (yeah, go figure) was WEP, so it was a sort
> of "not-by-choice" thing for me.  And visiting other people's houses,
> WEP is often something you need to deal with.

Right.  It's not always a choice.  I didn't mean to imply it didn't matter if 
WEP worked because people shouldn't use it.  It ought to work.  I know my 
4965 laptop worked with WEP in Hardy because I was working on site at a 
customer for a while and the employee wireless network was WPA and the 
visitor's network was WEP.

Scott K