Vista kills Ubuntu wireless

[Young]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Young wrote:
>   
>> But, if it's a driver issue, why would the LiveCD work before Vista was
>> activated?
>>     
>
> It's not a driver issue, assuming it really did work the first time,
> right out of the box, with a Live CD (disclaimer).  If that's the case
> then Windows had to have set something in the device, possibly even a
> firmware upgrade(?), and now Linux won't talk to the device.  You would
> have to disassemble the Windows driver to see what it did during setup.
>  If they did indeed upgrade the firmware, no amount of power cycling
> would help.
>
> Windows makes the asinine (malicious?) assumption that it's the only
> thing on the system.  Given the number of firmware upgradeable devices,
> I'm surprised that Microsoft is just now getting into the game of nuke
> the competition by making the system unusable by anyone else.  I could
> be wrong about that, but given MS history, it does make one think.
>
> Back to the problem... try another Live CD, Redhat, Opensuse, somo other
> non-debian distribution and see if that works.  It's possible another
> distro may have a different driver.
>
> ...Ken
>
>   
Some of this also occurred to me. Hopefully it's not true. When I get 
the time I'm going to look over the data sheets for the chip, if it's 
available.


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