On Tue, September 23, 2008 22:37, M Harris wrote:

On Sunday 21 September 2008 23:44, vince wrote:

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Linux is not yet perfect for desktop use, that is true. That is absolute nonsense.

It's not nonsense. Haven't you ever heard about "all hardware sucks, all software sucks"? As long as any software is made for humans, by humans, it will never be perfect. Learn to live with it, and meanwhile use the software that annoys you the least. In my case, and probably also in the case of most of the subscribers on this mailing list, the least annoying operating system is Linux. That being said, Windows, MacOS, *BSD, Solaris and all others are not yet perfect for desktop use either. But at least Linux supports more devices out of the box without any additional installation or configuration than Windows does. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote:

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That being said, Windows, MacOS, *BSD, Solaris and all others are not yet perfect for desktop use either. But at least Linux supports more devices out of the box without any additional installation or configuration than Windows does.

That is simply not true! Most hardware manufacturers produce drivers for Windows first and then for MacOS.

The key phrase is "out of the box". Microsoft has very limited driver support out of the Microsoft box. Linux has very good driver support out of the SUSE box. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2008/9/23 M Harris :

On Sunday 21 September 2008 23:44, vince wrote:

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Linux is not yet perfect for desktop use, that is true. That is absolute nonsense.

Are you arguing that Linux is _perfect_ for desktop use? I need to run Solidworks on my desktop, to be interoperable with people who care more about functional software than about any dream of open code. Any system that cannot run Solidworks is not perfect for me or any other engineer in my position. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

2008/9/24 Roger Oberholtzer :

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Are you arguing that Linux is _perfect_ for desktop use? I need to run Solidworks on my desktop, to be interoperable with people who care more about functional software than about any dream of open code. Any system that cannot run Solidworks is not perfect for me or any other engineer in my position.

So your question is: Is Linux perfect at running applications that were not written for it.

I will remind you that Linux is an operating system (or more pedantically, a kernel from which an OS can be built upon): without software it does nothing. An OS without applications is useless to me. So until there are engineering applications for Linux, it cannot be perfect for me.

I think your issue is not with Linux, but with Solidworks.

That is a good point and it is open to debate. I declare that Linux is not perfect because it cannot run Solidworks, which I need for work. However, my activity is centered on the opposite front: I have written to Solidworks and it's distributors inquiring about future versions either having native Linux ports, or being compiled against a stable Wine branch. If you'd like to help me, here is a list of addresses to contact: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/contact-information.htm Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

2008/9/25 Roger Oberholtzer :

I wish you luck in getting support!

Luck won't help, but community involvement would. Likewise, if anyone needs any software that is not available for Linux, then write to the manufacturer and request it. Then let me know, and I will write to the manufacturer as well. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�Z+i�b�*'jW(�f�vǦj)h���Ǿ��i�������

On Thursday 25 September 2008 05:33:41 pm Tony Alfrey wrote:

Dotan Cohen wrote:

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2008/9/25 Roger Oberholtzer :

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I wish you luck in getting support!

Luck won't help, but community involvement would. Likewise, if anyone needs any software that is not available for Linux, then write to the manufacturer and request it. Then let me know, and I will write to the manufacturer as well.

I admire your zeal but I'm curious as to how many responses you get from manufacturers even acknowledging your mail. Dassault Systèmes (Solidworks) was one such company that I've written an email to (many moons ago) regarding a linux port with no response whatsoever.

I do this kind of thing often. No idea how well it works. However, on the Solidworks front - one of my buddies happens to be a VP of sales there. I called him this evening and had a chat. I explained to him that it might be beneficial for them to introduce a Linux version for those people not on Windows. He said he'd pass it by the board, but no promises. Worth a shot. :) -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Tony Alfrey wrote:

Kai Ponte wrote: <snip>

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I do this kind of thing often. No idea how well it works.

However, on the Solidworks front - one of my buddies happens to be a VP of sales there. I called him this evening and had a chat. I explained to him that it might be beneficial for them to introduce a Linux version for those people not on Windows. He said he'd pass it by the board, but no promises.

Worth a shot. :)

It would be nice!

You can also send them our way, we have been very successful lately in getting more ISVs to come to the SUSE Linux platform. http://www.novell.com/linux/isv/ Thanks, Darren -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2008/9/26 Tony Alfrey :

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Luck won't help, but community involvement would. Likewise, if anyone needs any software that is not available for Linux, then write to the manufacturer and request it. Then let me know, and I will write to the manufacturer as well.

I admire your zeal but I'm curious as to how many responses you get from manufacturers even acknowledging your mail. Dassault Systèmes (Solidworks) was one such company that I've written an email to (many moons ago) regarding a linux port with no response whatsoever.

I do get quite a few responses, I'd say only about 1 in 10 do not respond. In fact, the response is usually "yes, we are waiting for more interest in Linux before investing in a Linux port". That's why I insist that the time has come to be vocal. Solidworks the company has not answered me, but my local distributor has. He uses Ubuntu at home! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�Z+i�b�*'jW(�f�vǦj)h���Ǿ��i�������

On Wed, September 24, 2008 00:52, Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:

M Harris wrote:

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On Sunday 21 September 2008 23:44, vince wrote:

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Linux is not yet perfect for desktop use, that is true.

That is absolute nonsense.

I'll second, third, and take it to infinity.

For 10 years, I have been a running full blown desktop Linux.

And 8 of these years, running my business solely from Linux

The only things I need Windows (or Mac) for is my tax software and my piano tuning software - that's it !!!!!!

So actually you are saying that Linux is not yet perfect, not even for your use. It could only reach your standard of perfection when you are able to run your tax software and your piano tuning software on it. The key word here is "perfect". While I can agree on an asymptotic approximation of the concept of total perfection (omega point or whatever you want to call it) but that is still very far from the current state of Linux, that I call "adequate" (or "good enough"). My apologies for being a dictionary worm, but choosing the right words can be very important, especially in written communication where you loose all nonverbal modes of communication. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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My thoughts exactly.

What are the names of the Tax software TaxAct http://www.taxact.com/

Again, Linux is not popular enough ?

and piano tuning software? Reyburn Cybertuner http://www.reyburn.com/

The gentlemen that wrote Cybertuner actually really likes Linux and would probably offer a version - except - that, from talking to him a while back, Linux is lacking some sort of "system" hook (API?) to talk to something in the hardware that Windows & Mac have. The other consideration is that, Linux is not popular enough to spend the development time on. I even offered to be a beta tester Regards, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Duaine & Laura Hechler:

Reyburn Cybertuner http://www.reyburn.com/

The gentlemen that wrote Cybertuner actually really likes Linux and would probably offer a version - except - that, from talking to him a while back, Linux is lacking some sort of "system" hook (API?) to talk to something in the hardware that Windows & Mac have. The

wrt sound hardware: Quite unlikely. Maybe the cybertune developers had a bit of a hard time fighting their way through the balkanized linux sound api jungle? All too understandable, too. But there is hope: For instance Lennart Poettering, the Pulseaudio guy, just published a pretty good overview on http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis which should help audio developers to make a good first decision. Some of the api's, especially ALSA, are awesome. In every sense of the word. As usual: The main barrier to wider adoption (including windows people who consider linux ports) is good documentation. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, September 24, 2008 13:23, James Knott wrote:

Are you claiming Windows is "perfect", given all the problems with it?

Absolutely not, on the contrary!!! By the way, in this thread you are the first to suggest that Windows is "perfecter" than Linux, although others claimed this about Mac. But Mac is not an OS, it is OS+box. That's not the same. My opinion is: "All Hardware Sucks, All Software Sucks"(tm) (But Some Suck More Than Others) You should read "Murphy's Computer Law" by Joachim Graf ISBN 978-0285632288 A bit outdated (from 99) but still relevant! -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

On Wed, September 24, 2008 13:23, James Knott wrote:

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Are you claiming Windows is "perfect", given all the problems with it?

Absolutely not, on the contrary!!!

By the way, in this thread you are the first to suggest that Windows is "perfecter" than Linux

????? When did I ever suggest that? I consider Windows to be very inferior in many ways. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Kai Ponte wrote:

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:06:59 am James Knott wrote:

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Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

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On Wed, September 24, 2008 13:23, James Knott wrote:

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Are you claiming Windows is "perfect", given all the problems with it? Absolutely not, on the contrary!!!

By the way, in this thread you are the first to suggest that Windows is "perfecter" than Linux ?????

When did I ever suggest that? I consider Windows to be very inferior in many ways.

Slighty OT (sorry, Fred) but I just came back from Starbucks.

I saw a guy there with a laptop which had an Ubuntu sticker.

I remarked that it was unusual to see a laptop running Linux. He indicated he was running KUbuntu and that the laptop had been wiped from XP.

I mentioned that I ran openSUSE and hadn't tried KUbuntu. He said he keeps an openSUSE live CD around for those instances where he's in a computer lab and needs to access the internet.

Very cool!

:)

I was recently doing some work at a University of Toronto student's residence. When I asked the security guard to lock up after I was done, we got talking about computers and he mentioned he used Linux. I then showed him my Asus Eee PC. Also, while my ThinkPad came with XP I left it on and repartitioned to make room for Linux. I have also placed a domed "Tux" sticker on it. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Kai Ponte:

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I mentioned that I ran openSUSE and hadn't tried KUbuntu. He said he keeps an openSUSE live CD around for those instances where he's in a computer lab and needs to access the internet.

Very cool!

With all due respect to the disc jockey faction: Having to change OS distribution in order to have net access is not exactly very cool.

although...... they may not be doing it solely for net access. They may be doing it so as not to leave a trace as to what they were DOING on the net. CD is ejected from drive, computer rebooted, all trace vanishes.

What's with KUbuntu? Are they serious?

Wolfgang

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2008/9/26 steve :

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although...... they may not be doing it solely for net access. They may be doing it so as not to leave a trace as to what they were DOING on the net. CD is ejected from drive, computer rebooted, all trace vanishes.

I doubt that. In most university computer labs that I've seen, the machines are regularly ghosted. However, network activity is monitored. So the problem is not leaving traces on the computer, but rather who's monitoring the network.

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On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

"perfecter" Hummmmmmm thats one i have never seen in any dictionaryso far or does this come from some personal compilation of a dictionary

BTW Linux is a darn sight more ready for the desktop than windBloWs will ever be just we lack support form the hardware makers because they all bow to the biggest bullet in this case M$ Corp worst luck . Pete -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Amedee Van Gasse:

My opinion is: "All Hardware Sucks, All Software Sucks"(tm) (But Some Suck More Than Others)

True. Stuff sucks to an extent that leaves me speechless on a regular basis. Though when you say "As long as software is made for humans, by humans, it will never be perfect" I'd like to think that every now and then brilliance prevails. We will have wicked gui's and data access models in 2028. I know, I've been there, even brought a copy back. Doesn't look or act one bit like KDE4. It's a shame it was not GPL'ed, hence We Can't Share It (tm) ;) Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R. skrev:

The Monday 2008-09-22 at 10:30 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:

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However, we kept running into issues. The wifi (Linksys running ndiswrapper) will continually drop.

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Never use ndiswrapper, if there is any chance to get wifi running with a real linux driver. ndiswrapper is no solution, it is a workaround, which may help, if nothing else works. Best is, you check your hardware for compatibility before you buy.

Exactly. When shopping, you have to ensure that everything works with linux, and that is not always easy to find out before you buy :-(

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

A similar experience of mine...this school's got a funny CISCO (!) firewall. That works fast and fine with winboxes behind it. But with Linux boxes behind it, it comes to a crawl.. Support from the Cisco dealer: "Eh, we don't support Linux..., but I think it's a known issue..." Clearly it's an implementation bug in the CISCO box, no matter what you do to the Linux box (IP6 on/off etc), it does make no difference. Then...you setup another firewall - and Linux (and windows) flies both. Am I going to recommend/buy CISCO gear next time, I'll give you one guess at that one :-) -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard www.os-academy.dk Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:25 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Exactly. When shopping, you have to ensure that everything works with linux, and that is not always easy to find out before you buy :-(

Well, the grass is not always greener on the other side: I have a new iMac that I want to work with a Netgear wireless access point. It is really screwy. The various APs zip in and out of the list of available ones, and connecting to mine works very seldom. The most I can find in the /var/log files (MAC OS-X is BSD, so some things are in a familiar place) is error -9 when connecting. Gee, talk about useful error messages. I have actually resorted to a cable to the iMac. OTOH, openSUSE 10.3 on my Sony laptop works great. Connects every time. Even when sitting on a table next to the iMac that is not playing ball with the same AP. An XP box also connects fine. Even though that one sometimes looses the connection. I suspect that MS' OSs loose connections just as often as Linux. But they are pragmatic and simply reconnect silently. Perhaps Linux intends to as well, but all is not working as expected. I do not know. But I do know that no OS has wireless down to an art. MAC OS-X surprised me as they control the computer hardware that the OS controls. They have one less variable to deal with in the puzzle. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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The Monday 2008-09-22 at 16:40 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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Exactly. When shopping, you have to ensure that everything works with linux, and that is not always easy to find out before you buy :-(

Well, the grass is not always greener on the other side:

I have a new iMac that I want to work with a Netgear wireless access

:-)

I'm not sure that Macs are at "the other side", but at some island on the river ;-p

nice :) -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:21 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:

While I don't want you to think I'm some kinda troll (I use a Mac and two partitions of linux) I will submit that I think that a Mac is what linux + desktop-of-your-choice could be, were it not for the need to support a bunch of hardware for which there are no drivers. If SuSE + KDE + QT + kernel kids could stick to one hardware platform (and even choose what it would be), it *would* be the universal choice for OS. The Mac is, in essence, OS + box.

Yep. But, even with a minimal hardware support list, MAC OS still has hardware support issues. Like the odd wireless behavior. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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The Monday 2008-09-22 at 10:30 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:

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However, we kept running into issues. The wifi (Linksys running ndiswrapper) will continually drop.

Never use ndiswrapper, if there is any chance to get wifi running with a real linux driver. ndiswrapper is no solution, it is a workaround, which may help, if nothing else works. Best is, you check your hardware for compatibility before you buy.

Exactly. When shopping, you have to ensure that everything works with linux, and that is not always easy to find out before you buy :-(

Which is why I tell the person who's answering my questions about such and such, that if it doesn't work in Linux, it gets returned, because I don't use Windows (unless I have to). And if they aren't OK with that, I don't buy it (from them). It's not only the hardware Vendors but the resalers that we need to be working on. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Am Montag, 22. September 2008 21:44:08 schrieb Kai Ponte:

On Monday 22 September 2008 01:30:03 am Herbert Graeber wrote:

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Kai Ponte schrieb:

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However, we kept running into issues. The wifi (Linksys running ndiswrapper) will continually drop.

Never use ndiswrapper, if there is any chance to get wifi running with a real linux driver. ndiswrapper is no solution, it is a workaround, which may help, if nothing else works. Best is, you check your hardware for compatibility before you buy.

Yes, I'd heard this many times.

However, there does not seem to be a Linux-native PCI Wireless card that I can purchase (I asked on the list some months ago.) within any reason here in California.

Airlink101 AWLH4130. Available at Frys in Concord. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 05:26:15 schrieb Kai Ponte:

On Monday 22 September 2008 10:23:06 pm Andreas wrote:

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However, there does not seem to be a Linux-native PCI Wireless card that I can purchase (I asked on the list some months ago.) within any reason here in California.

Airlink101 AWLH4130. Available at Frys in Concord.

That's the first card I'd bought. The Airlink cards use this RaLink driver set that doesn't play well with openSUSE.

Kai, I bought that card for real cheap at last year's Thanksgiving Sale, and although I had to retire the pc I used it in, I am almost certain that I compiled & used the madwifi drivers without any problem.

I'd prefer one with Intel (as in my laptops) but that doesn't seem to be an option.

Sorry, can't help you with that. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

ka1ifq skrev:

On Monday 22 September 2008 12:32:53 am Kai Ponte wrote:

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My father-in-law's wife (my mother-in-law passed away some years ago) recently had me get her a new computer. She had a six-year-old system running expee that was ready to visit the recycle center.

I got her a new Dell system with freeDOS and promptly loaded openSUSE 10.3. Her only requirements were word processing, email (AOL) and eBay.

So I get her the system and eventually configure it for AOL mail using Thunderbird.

Although I had some initial problems setting up her system at their house - she uses Wireless to connect to the cable modem from another room - it seemed to work.

However, we kept running into issues. The wifi (Linksys running ndiswrapper) will continually drop. They have Cox cable, who will NOT support Linux configuration. Also, her AOL mail will continually fail to pull all mail through thunderbird. (If this is related to the wifi dropping, I don't know.)

Finally, after two months, I'm giving up. I'm going to install Vista on her system and pass her off to someone else who will support her. (She can use my laptop's copy of Vista Business, since I wiped it off over a year ago.)

It is unfortunate that such a nice system like openSUSE will fall to a simple thing like not having a good solid network driver or good network interface. (I have intel drivers in my laptops and rarely have issues, while KNetwork manager is okay, but not very user-friendly.)

Umm, if this is a desktop you could run an AP in client mode and the computer will not even know it's wireless, solved my problem before it started. Mike

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:09:29 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:

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Umm, if this is a desktop you could run an AP in client mode and the computer will not even know it's wireless, solved my problem before it started. Mike

- elaborate, please :-)

That is actually a good suggestion if you happen to have a spare wireless router/AP. By plugging the desktop machine's ethernet port into a wireless AP, then running that AP in client mode so that it connects to the main wireless AP, the desktop machine simply thinks it is talking to a wired connection. The RF side effectively becomes a wireless ethernet bridge to the main wireless router. No wireless NIC drivers, no messing around on the client machine with authentication etc; let the wireless AP client take care of all of that. Wish I'd thought of it myself...:-) -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, "Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less." -- Louise Andrews Kent

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:10:48 ka1ifq wrote: [...]

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The RF side effectively becomes a wireless ethernet bridge to the main wireless router. No wireless NIC drivers, no messing around on the client machine with authentication etc; let the wireless AP client take care of all of that.

Wish I'd thought of it myself...:-)

Yup, sometimes the simlpest things just boggle the mind after you do it.

When I first got the AP (with a usb dongle) I used it with a win machine to get it online until I got a chance to pull a cable, then it sat and I started reading the docs to see what I could actually do with it as an experiment.

The Buffalo was just such a deal ($25 after rebate) that I had to buy it, after I set it up I ended up stacking 2 computers on it and doing Remote Desktop to the WinXP machine thru the switch, one cable vs 2 or 4 with a kvm.

Sounds familiar...we use remote desktop a lot at work and I've been known to do it from my desktop to my laptop (or vice versa) sitting site by side on the same desk, just so I don't have to move between keyboards/mice :-). Just because I could. Then I discovered Synergy, but that is another story...

Sometimes you have everything you need to get the job done, you just don't know it. I learned that from being a Ham..

Mike

Too true. I can definitely relate to that... Cheers, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== Eleanor Rigby Sits at the keyboard And waits for a line on the screen Lives in a dream Waits for a signal Finding some code That will make the machine do some more. What is it for? All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long?