Feisty Meta physics

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> Just BTW, there's no need to cc me privately, I read the list.
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:32 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> > 
>> > What exactly do you mean, "a wireless connection is seen as wired"?
>> 
>> Just that.  When connected the wireless Dlink is recognized as a wired
>> connection.
> 
> I still don't get it, sorry. Which program does the recognizing? That
> is, do you use NetworkManager, or do you use ifupdown and have the
> devices defined in /etc/network/interfaces? And how do you determine
> that it recognized the wireless connection as wired?
>
How _would_ you tell except by using iwconfig and seeing it has no wireless
extensions?  I assumed that's what he meant, but of course assumptions are
usually wrong...

> I was just trying to politely point out that going to a mailing list for
> distro A, complaining about distro A, and adding that you'd much rather
> install distro B, might not be the best strategy to follow if you want
> people to help with A :)

<sigh>
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derek