On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:53 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Incidentally, Anne mentioned Xandros. > I'm really embarrassed that my grand-daughter's EeePC 4G > (ie the cheapest of the cheap) running Xandros > connects faultlessly to WiFi wherever she is. > I wonder what WiFi program that uses? > (She is in Australia at the moment, so I cannot examine the machine.) It would be interesting to know. It's also important to remember that when trying to get wireless connected, it's not just NetworkManager involved. It's NetworkManager, often wpa-supplicant if you're using that auth, the firmware for the device, and the kernel driver. If any of those pieces go wrong, the connection can fail, but usually only NetworkManager gets the blame (because that's what user's see). Depending on the hardware, some distros ship a ripped windows driver for them, or ship firmware that Fedora is just not able to, so it can appear that other distros work better when in fact they do, but it's because they are doing things that Fedora is not legally able to do. I'm not claiming that this is the case with Anne or your grand-daughter, I'm just saying that it's something to consider when doing comparisons. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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