Major bug in Edgy?

[George Farris]

HI all,
I know it's late in the devel cycle but here is an experience I've just
had with Edgy, which at this point in time, I think just shouldn't be.

I have a laptop with a Linksys WPC11 card in it, which works ok but Edgy
won't restore the network from suspend.  I have borrowed a Dlink
DWL-G650 B5 card and installed it into the laptop, nada, nothing.  Ok I
have to install the restricted drives, fine, nada, nothing.  The kernel
sees the card but the system will not configure it.

Ok go into System->Administration-Networking, yup lists the card now but
no way will it configure.  In fact nothing I do will configure this
card, possibly other cards, not sure yet.

I had to drop down to the command line and type "ifconfig ath0 up" and
then do a dhclient to get the thing to work.  Now I'm up on the network,
great, BUT, reboot and no more network.

Now I can fix this if I dive deep into the Debian network setup but the
point is I shouldn't have to do this at this point.  There is NO WAY a
newbie could ever get this working without doing a re-install.

I hope I'm wrong about all this but this is seriously bad for a simple
change of network cards that do have drivers and do work.

-- 
George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca