Grah. Meetings.

[silveradept]

Got an early start tomorrow, so this will be brief and not very link-filled at all.

Sunday - work shift. Quiet. Went out to dinner with family. Spent rest of night trying to get wireless to work with annaonthemoon. Failed. Miserably. Tried to get her to be able to pull it off. Either way, going to bed before frustration level mounts to unacceptable portions.

It appears that Linux in general has nasty problems with that particular wireless card. If things get too frustrating, I may just tell her that she's stuck with Windows. Certainly will save me headaches.

Meeting tomorrow about Rules of Behavior and other such thigns. Huz.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I thought we had it working before we turned back on WPA?

so I guess the solution is to keep it on an unsecured network again?

AARGGH. Now i'm frustrated too since windows says i'm not connected but I am....

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

An unsecured network is never the answer. (To be fair this is not necessarily true, there are cases where you can have an unsecured network, but none of those cases apply to you.)

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

really, the only reason for running a secured network in the first place was because we're in a heavily student populated area, and I didnt' want people mooching my connection. I leave n a few weeks though, so I'm really not all that concerned, considering it seems to work when WPA is turned off. At mom's, we run an unsecured, but that's really because we live inthe middle of no where.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

It's not that people are just mooching off your connection, it's also that you're liable for anything they do with your connection.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Windows does something better than Linux? Oh, snap!

Yarha, Surprise, Surprise

[silveradept]

Well, yeah, but that was a given. Windows has code monkeys in Redmond whose job it is to make Windows work with all things. Linux does not necessarily have the backing of such a dedicated code crew, and it also has to deal with some corporations actively trying to make their software/hardware incompatible, and/or so poorly documented as to be incompatible.

Silver, No Illusions.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Or put another way, Microsoft has the clout such that works with Windows is more than sufficient for product release.

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

The only thing Windows/Microsoft does better than Linux is market control.

This, unfortunately, leads to hardware manufacturers only bothering (in many cases) to write drivers for the Windows kernel, hence reducing the compatibility of said hardware for Linux (until the community writes drivers for it themselves). This is not a flaw with Linux, except in that it is a "flaw" of any system which has less market penetration than its rivals (see also, for example, the range of things designed to work with iPods vs the many other digital music players which are just as good or better, but have less market share).