Gutsy and Atheros wireless - my experience

[Mike Leone]

Derek Broughton (news at pointerstop.ca) had this to say on 10/29/07 at 15:08: 
> Mike Leone wrote:
> 
> > Derek Broughton (news at pointerstop.ca) had this to say on 10/29/07 at
> > 09:10:
> >> Mike Leone wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I needed to install kwlan;
> >> 
> >> why?
> > 
> > Because I needed WPA support, and installing wpa_supplicant said it wanted
> > it. (I think) Something wanted it; I didn't just make that up. :-)
> 
> wpa_supplicant is already installed as a dependency of network-manager-kde -
> and WPA is supported by NM - so I still don't see why you need kwlan.
> 

Because WPA did *NOT* come up as an option with network-manager. Maybe it
did for you, but it for sure wasn't there for me. I remember being annoyed
that it wasn't there (as an option in network-manager), and that I needed to
go and get it (and it did go and get it, so no - wpa_supplicant was *not*
installed for me.

> The attitude is all on your part.  You complain that gutsy doesn't work -

Did no such thing. I said it didn't work *FOR ME* - in my experience; but I
*explicitly* didn't say the same would hold true for everyone.

And I wasn't the only one who posted about your attitude in your response,
so no, the attitude is not (all) on my part.

> but you're not testing gutsy as installed.  You threw out network-manager
> and installed another wifi manager that you don't even understand the use
> of.
> 
> If the NIC wasn't "recognized",

WPA was not available as an option; I mis-spoke.

And your attitude continues. Seriously, if my posts piss you off so much,
then just ignore them. I've seen you be helpful to others; since you think
so low of me, ignore me, and go help them.