From: Abraham Vionas Date: 2004-12-04T06:03:37+09:00 Subject: [OFF] RE: *sigh* Anyone having wireless working on a linux machine? (ruby development machine) Whoops, sorry, I forgot to mention that a lot of the reason I'm investigating Linux is because being on Windows has been such a complicating factor in my drive to learn and use Ruby. I just thought I'd pose my question to the community at large. Sorry I forgot to tag it with the Off Topic. Regards, Abe -----Original Message----- From: Carl Youngblood [mailto:carlwork@ycs.biz] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:35 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: *sigh* Anyone having wireless working on a linux machine? Abraham Vionas wrote: >I've tried something like eight different distributions and the best I've >had yet was with Suse 9.1.and even then it only correctly detected my >builtin wireless, for some reason it didn't correctly configure it. I'm >close to giving up on Linux again for another year or two, but I thought I'd >ask and see if anyone else has successfully overcome this challenge already >and what kind of advice they'd be willing to provide. The problem seems to >be that regardless what distro I use I'll have to do some manual settings, >and since I'm a noob the best distro would be the one with the least amount >of learning curve. I know some of you are BSD fans so I tried FreeBSD but >couldn't get it to even install. : -( > Forgive me, but what does this have to do with Ruby? Did you mean to post this to a linux users group or something?