[ltp] Re: New T61 :) Wireless manager question, and wireless question.

[Micha]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 23:07:46 -0400
"David A. Desrosiers" <david.a.desrosiers@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
> 
> > If you want to be helpful rather than simply bombastic you might, for
> > example, inform the original poster that it does not work /for you/.
> 
> 
> Yes, it does not work /for me/ and several hundred other people in the same
> exact fashion. I am not on an island here.
> 

There was an issue with debian for about a month with an incompatibility of
network manager and some version of libglibc2.0 (don't remember the version,
can try and look it up if you want). Once that was updated things were solved.
Could be the same problem.


> That would be true, and potentially useful information.  It would help
> > even more if you were to point out to the original poster the actual
> > /problems/ you encountered -- not just "it doesn't work."
> 
> 
> Preaching to the choir.. I've been doing this for well over a decade. I know
> the drill. I've reported it to the proper people who have the resources and
> accountability to affect change. What they do with it from that point, is no
> longer my concern.
> 
> I could further claim the opposite but, frankly, I don't believe you
> > actually care about helping the OP so much as advancing your own
> > particular agenda.
> 
> 
> Which agenda would that be? Proper function of my wireless hardware? I've
> already achieved that.
> 
> If you supply some actual evidence of your complaints I may even start
> > considering them caused by something other than an overabundence of bile
> > on your part.
> 
> 
> See my previous post which included a screenshot and enough questions to
> elucidate discussions about what exactly its purpose is, how to use it, how
> to configure it, etc.