Wireless PCMCIA

[Lonni J Friedman]

Were you looking for assistance, or just trolling?

On 7/11/06, contact51 <lew at contact51.com> wrote:
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> Such a dissapointment.
>
> Over the recent weeks I have really put in the hours getting to grips with
> Linux by way of Fedora, having progressed from FC3-4 and now FC5.
>
> Being more than satisfied with results until now. Big problem.
>
> I went and bought a PCMCIA card for my laptop hoping to be able to use it.
>
> My HDD is divided into two - Windows XP and Fedora 5.
>
> It took probably about 2 minutes to install the card, up and running under
> XP.
>
> Some six hours later, after reading through numerous internet descriptions
> on how one might install such a device, downloading and installing gigabytes
> of files, wrappers etc. etc... still nothing! Eventually giving up in
> despair I decided that some of my original fears about Linux have to be
> correct. It is just a muddle of half cooked amateur computer files cobbled
> together to resemmble an OS that probably performs somewhere at about 60%
> compared to that of Bill Gates' Windows.
>
> Over the past years I have tried linux, different flavours, different
> version, always the same frustrating result.
>
> One wonders when the linux comunity will either ever get it right or give it
> up as a bad job.
>
> Such as what by todays technology standards should be such a simple affair,
> as Microsoft have proved - plug in and install a PCMCIA wireless card within
> three minutes - no typing fingers to the bone wearing out keyboards in the
> process, for no result in six hours!!!! Guiness Book of Records stuff me
> thinks!

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