Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2007 04:55 AM
The ubuntuforums.org site is awash in wireless problems, and bugs.launchpad.net is swamped with bug reports in this area. For instance, during Feisty development someone reported a problem with with the r818x wireless driver used by a ton of popular WiFi cards by Linksys and others. So, it was blacklisted by the kernel devs. Folks switching from Dapper or Edgy (where the card worked great) all of a sudden had no wireless and difficulty figuring out why. There are also problems with some WiFi USB adapters that use the at76c503a driver.
Wireless users would be wise to check the forums and launchpad to see if there are problems with their hardware before upgrading if they are dependent on WiFi networking. If they are, tracking the bugs until they are fixed before switching might be best.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2007 04:55 AMWireless users would be wise to check the forums and launchpad to see if there are problems with their hardware before upgrading if they are dependent on WiFi networking. If they are, tracking the bugs until they are fixed before switching might be best.
Good luck! --dB
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