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[John Levin]

LeeGroups wrote:
>>  We need solutions for this problem.  All persons won't buy boxes from 
>> Tesco and so it is necessary that we have to support the commonly 
>> available wireless cards, even if the manufacturer is not supporting 
>> Linux. Difficult task to achieve .. but that is the way forward.  If 
>> the number of linux users  increase, the manufacturers will be forced 
>> to use their resources to make them compatible with linux.
> I seriously don't get why people 'think everything just works' in Windows...
> I bought a USB wireless interface for a friend earlier this year. A well 
> know brand, Belkin, a Ralink chipset inside, with big XP compatible 
> stickers on the box. Should take 5 minutes to get it working... Plugged 
> it in, installed the drivers from the enclosed CD and viola... a semi 
> functioning wireless connection that couldn't see half the networks in 
> the area that my laptop could, and dropped out every couple of minutes...
> 
> Rubbish... uninstall/reinstall/download new drivers via my laptop 
> (handy)/ uninstall/install new drivers/then fiddle some more/etc...
> 
> Stuff may well work in the end on Windows, but it isn't always easy... 
> Don't get me started on the saga of getting my old scanner to work on 
> 2000...
> 

Seconded. Driver problems are frequently be found with Windows XP (as 
they were with Win 98 etc), and the situation with wireless is 
particularly bad, as often you end up with two apps (XP SP2 inbuilt 
wireless functions and the driver package from the maker) running at the 
same time, sometimes conflicting, at best just confusing the user.

</rant>

John