[olug] Happy Jaunty Day!

[T. J. Brumfield]

If I had to make a guess about your wireless, it is because you have
an Atheros chipset. Madwifi was nice, but not included by default by
many distros because of the inclusion of proprietary dependencies.
Eventually ath5k started development, which was in the main kernel,
and fully OSS.  But it took a long while for ath5k to catch up with
madwifi.  While that switch has been going on, it somewhat slowed down
wireless development, which honestly has been a weak spot in Linux
hardware support.

The newer Linux kernels have a fine ath5k driver with great support
for most Atheros-based chips.  The default kernel installed with
openSUSE 11.1 doesn't work for some, but updating to a newer kernel
usually solves most wireless problems I've seen lately.  I'm guessing
Jaunty is shipping with a 2.6.29 based kernel, which is probably why
your wireless works now.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> Just finished installing jaunty on my laptop.  First time I have had
> working wireless there.  I've tried opensuse (latest official release),
> fedora 10, intrepid, and hardy and had no luck.  Spent a little time
> under intrepid trying to get it to work but not too hard.
>
> I agree with you about Mark.  Never understood why people bash him so
> much.   I can understand differing opinions but like RMS and ESR
> regardless of their stance on various things you have to credit them for
> what they have contributed to free software.
>
> Heck I even appreciate the fact that Bill Gates/Microsoft made cheap
> hardware a reality.  I remember spending $5K+ for my first machines in
> the pre win95 days.
>
>    Sam Tetherow
>
>
>
> T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>> And I believe they announce and plan the next two release names in
>> advance, but I'm not sure they plan past that.
>>
>> For the record, I loathe using Ubuntu for a variety of reasons (broken
>> packages, I hate Gnome, I've had more hardware issues on Ubuntu that I
>> don't have on Gentoo, Arch, Sabayon, openSUSE, etc) but it is nice to
>> see see a Linux distro have the success that Ubuntu has.
>>
>> One can not deny the business savvy of Shuttleworth.  He is increasing
>> the visibility of Linux on the whole, and that is a good thing.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there even a defined convention for Ubuntu codenames?
>>>>
>>> Releases are named with an adjective and an animal.  Each successive
>>> release uses the next letter in the English alphabet to start both words.
>>> If you think they used "H" twice, then you're not paying attention.
>>> I don't recall the first three, but:
>>>        Dapper Drake was 6.06.
>>>        Edgy Eft was 6.10.
>>>        Feisty Fawn was 7.04.
>>>        Gutsy Gibbon was 7.10.
>>>        Hardy Heron was 8.04.
>>>        Intrepid Ibis was 8.10.
>>>        Jaunty Jackalope is 9.04.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
>>>   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
>>>     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
>>>       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins
>>>