Internet

[Dougie Richardson]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 17:42 +0100, Phil Bull wrote:

>  * The names of the sections about connecting to a network don't refer
> specifically to 'connecting to the Internet', so some users may overlook
> them. This could probably be remedied with a small section before
> Networking Basics called Connecting to the Internet, as we had
> previously. This would just have a list of the different connection
> methods with links to the relevant sections to help people find their
> way to the right topic.

Fair enough, done.

>  * It might be worth including a brief sentence where appropriate which
> describes what the Network Manager icon looks like (both wired and
> wireless icons). I can see people having problems finding it.

Described now in notice box on first page.

>  * The text inside a few multiline <screen> tags has been indented, so
> appears indented in Yelp.

Fixed.

>  * I'm not sure about this at all, but you may need to edit /etc/modules
> so that the ndiswrapper module is loaded at start-up.

I recommended the use of ndisgtk which is in the main repository and no
configuration of /etc/modules is required.

>  * "If you recieve a message" -> "If you receive a message"

I before E except after C, you'd think that at 31 I'd know this. ;-)

>  * Maybe change the title of 'Using NDISWrapper' to 'Using Windows
> Wireless Drivers'

Done.

> Apart from those, it's a massive improvement from the original state of
> the document and the patch should be committed ASAP. I especially like
> the Troubleshooting section.

Righto - I've got the SVN login details, so I just do svn commit? Sorry,
I've never been trusted with commits on SVN - we always used to use RCS
(he said showing his age).

Cheers,

Dougie