john connolly
2019-12-26 17:05:30 UTC
Hi, I've been a slackware user since way back when and the one area
where I have been consistently frustrated is with wifi. My pc was
hard-wired into a router provided by our cable company until recently
when I moved my office to an adjacent room. I had an old wifi dongle
that worked until the router went down and probably took the dongle with
it. When the router was repaired I ended up running an ethernet cable
from one room to another to get back on line. There are any number of
wifi lans on the market that claim to be linux friendly but I have a
dickens of a time finding one that works with Slackware, (it usually
turns out that they work with Ubuntu and I'm not planning to change
distributions.) I know that wifi is a moving target for open source
software but what is it about Slackware that makes this so difficut? Any
ideas about this?
Thanks, jwc
where I have been consistently frustrated is with wifi. My pc was
hard-wired into a router provided by our cable company until recently
when I moved my office to an adjacent room. I had an old wifi dongle
that worked until the router went down and probably took the dongle with
it. When the router was repaired I ended up running an ethernet cable
from one room to another to get back on line. There are any number of
wifi lans on the market that claim to be linux friendly but I have a
dickens of a time finding one that works with Slackware, (it usually
turns out that they work with Ubuntu and I'm not planning to change
distributions.) I know that wifi is a moving target for open source
software but what is it about Slackware that makes this so difficut? Any
ideas about this?
Thanks, jwc