I have been experimenting with Linux by creating images deployable on almost anything.<br><br>My goal is to resurrect OLD near DEAD PC and Mac hardware with new up to date software!<br><br>Thus the terms, Frank-Intel and Franken-Tosh.<br>
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<br><a href="http://drpcdr.ca/mac_story/mac_story.html">http://drpcdr.ca/mac_story/mac_story.html</a><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>I had too many problems with the Wireless on the HP Omnibook. It proved to be unreliable!<br>
So I did what I had suggested to the customer from day 0.<br><br>I reduced the repair bill by $20.00 and removed the PCMCIA wireless network adapter.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Kevin Cozens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org">kevin@ve3syb.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 12-03-21 09:09 AM, charles chris wrote:<br>
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I can connect to my wep wireless connection in Windows but NOT in Linux.<br>
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Linux keeps asking for password and will NOT authenticate<br>
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I need a solution before Thursday March 22, 2012<br>
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Did you get your problem solved in time or did you have to resort to putting Windows on the machine?<div class="im"><br>
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I wish Linux was more like Windows in that most things work straight out of<br>
the box, especially the installation of device drivers.<br>
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I have usually found Ubuntu does a decent job of getting the support right for devices unless you have something quite new. The main problem regarding device drivers is due to hardware manufacturers being unable or unwilling to consider making drivers available for other than Windows (and Mac). If they also do not want to give out details of the hardware to make it easy (or easier) to for someone else to write a driver, the Linux user suffers.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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