23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
6:24 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:13:36 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 22 July 2013 23:37:35 Alexandre Couture
wrote:
A Mageia user of my acquaintance is currently complaining that wireless
connections are dodgy. He is thinking of using something else for a bit in
the hope that the probem will be ironed out.
Wireless in any *nix is going to be iffy and not very good, simply because there's
not enough folk in the linux world working on wireless *and* the wireless hardware
manufacturers aren't helping one iota, so the few linux dev's working on
wireless
are forced to do everything by baby steps. It's a shame, but that's just the
way
it is at present.
--
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.” -John v.
Lindsey
On
07/22/2013 02:25 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I'd have to say that every time I had to/wanted to use Debian systems, I
had this kind of problems. If it is not super important for you to use a
Debian-based distro, I would really recommend you to try PCLinuxOS or
Mageia. I use squeese. nm-applet is from the
network-manager-applet package,
The problem is making it work on Wheezy. I suppose I could go back to
Squeeze, but it seems better to put new installs on XFCE for now, if it
comes to that. XFCE has a really good network applet, and most users
don't really notice the difference as long as everything they need works.
-- They comes with tons of easy to use
administration and networking
tools. And they works with any desktop environment you want to use, even
small window managers. No need to know by heart console lines to write to
do ... things.
Lisi