[laptop-discuss] Awful Atheros reliability

[Matthew Gardiner]

> I sympathise, but I find it a little unfair to nwam to call it unreliable if
> you're saying yourself it happens with Atheros only.
>
> In my experience, nwam may still have deficiencies, but it's not unreliable.

The nwam issue is completely seperate to the atheros issue; I said
that I don't use nwam, if someone was going to suggest using it. The
reason why I said it was unreliable is because it is broken; when the
networking isn't properly setup and thus need manual tweaking of
nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf, it kinda takes the whole magic out of
network magic.

Then lets not get started when one moves from one location to another,
or when the password on a router changes, then all hell breaks loose.
its not a pretty picture. I'd sooner not have to battle with the
issues.

Then there is the constant messages, and if you don't click on the ok,
it doesn't make a connection.

I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get my drift.

Matthew