On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
A prize for special effort should go to those wireless card manufacturers who replace a reasonably functional Windows XP Wireless configuration utility with one that only starts the card on login...because that is oh so handy when you want to log in as a new user on a domain attached machine.
One of the worst offenders has to be Intel with their Pro wireless 2200 card on windows, you need to install the centrino chipset drivers before the wireless card drivers or it won't work (this "feature" is undocumented) Of course the chipset drivers are about 30 *megs* and then the wireless card drivers are another 50 *megs* (and there was some other bits, I forget). Of course to make the card work with ubuntu I just needed some (non-free but worse, because of Intels stupid redistribution clause) firmware, which was about a 1 meg download iirc.
I also recall my parents HP PSC-750 that has a few hundred megs of drivers for windows and performs worse with Windows than it does with Ubuntu :)
Adam