Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Druid <marcio.ferreira@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, its just a troll, forget it.

best regards

Marcio

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Jim Flanagan <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> > So far getting my wireless on my laptop working with SuSE wasn't too hard,
> but
> > kubuntu is 1 click. With SuSE all the how-to's I read everyone is still
> > suggesting using ndiswrapper which involves cleaning up all the bcmxx
> stuff
> > first then hunting down the drivers to use with ndiswrapper, installing
> > ndiswrapper and finally configuring ndiswrapper, but with kubuntu it just
> > downloads the firmware automatically and wireless works.
> >
> > I experimented with this, I found out where Kubuntu is getting that
> firmware
> > and downloaded it and extracted it in /lib/firmware on SuSE and the
> wireless
> > card instantly worked. Maybe SuSE should look into something like that. So
> > far the way I see other suse users getting their bcmxx wireless working on
> > SuSE makes me feel sorry for them. If only they knew that all they had to
> do
> > was download 1 file and stick it in their firmware folder they would be
> set
> > and ready to go. I wish I could tell *EVERY* bcmxx suse user about this.
>
>  Do you really want your OS to overwrite your firmware without
> notifying/asking you? Are these firmware upgrades sophisticated enough that
> they won't break the device if you mulit-boot to a different OS??
>
>
>
> > Another thing is apt. Oh boy do I miss apt when working in SuSE. I know
> > there's probably an equivilent for SuSE, like YUM or such, but I don't
> know
> > how to use it as good as I do apt.
>  Isn't the difference really the difference in the way rpm works vs deb? I
> really am not experienced in deb at all so I can't fully comment here, but
> the two package management schemes are very different. Which one is better?
> Suse stuck with rpm.
>
>  Jim F
>
>
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