Wifi is really broken

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Fri Nov 14 15:21:34 GMT 2003


On Friday 14 November 2003 05:52, Chris Howells wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2003 10:02, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > Right, it just doesn't work at all here and the visual part doesn't meet
> > KDE standards either.
>
> It is also, IMO, rather bizarre to just have a Wifi KCM when you have to
> change the rest of your hardware settings elsewhere. Something like
> changing monitor power saving is fine: it's a simple procedure to modify
> the X server's DPMS settings in a cross platform manner, but I rather think
> that something like Wifi settings is pushing it.
>
> (and of course it doesn't work here either, though it's not compiled on
> FreeBSD to start with)

  No it's actually quite important.  If you travel from place to place with a 
laptop and need to constantly edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts you will learn 
to appreciate this very quickly.

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