Wireless not connecting...

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 29 May 2019 12:19:19 +1000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 22:03 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > Actually not all that likely.  There isn't much of a local *Linix*
> > community. I'm pretty much the entire Linix community in this towna,
> > and I don't have one.  Actually, there probably isn't even a local
> > store that carries them.  
> 
> Just to be pedantic, you don't need a Linux community, you need a
> computer community. The dongles are pretty much OS agnostic (except
> Broadcom).

The thing is that it is unlikely (as far as I can tell) for someone with 
a MacBook, a ChromeBook (all of kids > 6th grade get a ChromeBook) or 
MS-Windows laptop, to have any need for such a dongle -- ALL of those machines 
have built-in wireless and all have "factory installed" OSs with drivers.  The 
only people who have something other than "factory installed" OSs are people 
running Linux and these would be the only people who would have any issues 
with wireless driver issues.  I expect that if someone with one of the above 
"factory installed" O/Ss (MacOSX, ChromeOS, or MS-Windows) whose wireless NIC 
dies would be more likely to get a new laptop and junk the old one.  *I'm* 
guessing one of the reasons this machine was donated to the library was that 
the owner "upgraded" to a new machine, possibly because this one was starting 
to have problems (its battery is kaput for sure, but I am thinking its 
wireless has "died").

We really don't have a "Computer Community".  We have people with computers 
(most of whom are on some level "computer illerate", for some definatation of 
that phrase).  I doubt any of them have a WiFi dongle to spare and probably 
don't know what that is.

> 
> Regards, K.
> 

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