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)

Vincenzo Ciancia ciancia at di.unipi.it
Sat Nov 15 00:39:10 UTC 2008


Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
> 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
> 

Scott, if you move often you get what they give you, in my case it is a 
stupid unprotected network...  but the laptop has to work.

Vincenzo





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