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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> In aus.computers.linux on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:18:03 GMT
> Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> The Man <man@man.com> writes:
>>> There appears to be no easy way to manage any of the above 3 issues.
>> All three are easily managed.
>> I have no idea what Mint is like, I use Mandriva, which is also a pretty
>> user friendly distro.
>> It has a GUI for doing wireless networks. I have no idea what "poor/flakey"
>> means 
> 
> Usually it means "I have a wireless chip made by someone who hasn't
> released enough information for the community to make a decent driver
> for it".
> 
> Still too common alas.  Sometimes the madwifi ones are worth trying.

My wireless works nicely but then again I'm a geek.

> 
> Other ones can only be managed via ndis and using the windows driver.
> 
> The madwifi driver does't tend to be included in most distros, not
> sure why.  The ndis setup is hard to auto setup and there's issues
> about including the Windows DLLs in a distro.
> 
> Zebee

The point I'm trying to make is that Linux is just too complex for 
average users to set up as a member of a mixed network. Or am I wrong? I 
would like nothing more than Linux to be widely available in a place 
like officeworks.

My dear mother runs Mint on her home PC, she's happy as can be, but 
we've never attempted to network that with her vista basic laptop; I 
can't get my head around Samba, not enough time.