Comment Re:Windows vs Ubuntu (Score 1) 868
I really hate to say this, but.
Last night (this morning) I got so sick and tired of trying to get my poxy WiFi card (Linksys WPC54GS [has to be ndiswrapper]) working on my gOS (Ubuntu + E17) Thinkpad (T22, yes, I know, very old) that I formatted and put openSuSE on there again.
The bitch of it all is that I had been running that damn setup since gOS 2 came out. Without hassle. My PDA was connecting, the MAC was not filtered, yes, the SSID was off, but it connected to the AP and then refused to use the encryption key. I tried wpa_supplicant.conf, and loading wpa_supplicant by hand, ifup and ifupdown and a load of other tricks that I read about and googled to no avail. I just gave up.
All I wanted to do was get the thing to run NX to log into my desktop, and even then, under openSuSE it wouldn't actually go until I installed KDE (instead of the minimal graphics install [fvwm]), I needed the Kwallet and Knetworkmanager to work together.
All in all, WiFi works on Linux, but it IS a pain in the arse. Even for a geek.
What is good is that I had already backed up the /home and when the openSuSE installer asked about partitioning I dropped it all back into place. I wish Ubuntu based distros made separate /home partitions by default.
This is not to say that I won't use/recommend Ubuntu, I just prefer openSusE for my machines.
Last night (this morning) I got so sick and tired of trying to get my poxy WiFi card (Linksys WPC54GS [has to be ndiswrapper]) working on my gOS (Ubuntu + E17) Thinkpad (T22, yes, I know, very old) that I formatted and put openSuSE on there again.
The bitch of it all is that I had been running that damn setup since gOS 2 came out. Without hassle. My PDA was connecting, the MAC was not filtered, yes, the SSID was off, but it connected to the AP and then refused to use the encryption key. I tried wpa_supplicant.conf, and loading wpa_supplicant by hand, ifup and ifupdown and a load of other tricks that I read about and googled to no avail. I just gave up.
All I wanted to do was get the thing to run NX to log into my desktop, and even then, under openSuSE it wouldn't actually go until I installed KDE (instead of the minimal graphics install [fvwm]), I needed the Kwallet and Knetworkmanager to work together.
All in all, WiFi works on Linux, but it IS a pain in the arse. Even for a geek.
What is good is that I had already backed up the
This is not to say that I won't use/recommend Ubuntu, I just prefer openSusE for my machines.
