The OSS Solution to the Linux Wi-Fi Problem

tobs writes "Matt Hartley of MadPenguin.org fame has published an open source way of solving the Linux Wi-Fi problem. He writes, "For intermediate to advanced users, who are willing to track down WiFi cards based on chipsets, live without WPA in some instances or have opted to stick with Ethernet, buying a new notebook for the sake of improved wireless connectivity may seem a little overkill. When a new user faces problems jumping through the NDISWrapper hoops, tracking down WiFi cards from HCLs and other related activities, the end result is almost always the same — they give up. What so many of us, as Linux users, fail to grasp is that projects like OpenHAL are critical to long-term development. The education on what to expect and what not to expect remains a complete load of hot air when articles claim how easy it is to setup wireless Internet on Linux machines. It's downright misleading."

Re:Weird...

[Anonymous Coward]

Absolutely! This article was like a wisp of stinky fumes that came and went before the senses could register what the smell actually was! However, here's my take on what it might of been about? Yes, it's true that Linux is still a step child when it comes to products mass marketed to technology junkies such as us( Please tell us something we didn't know already). Anyways, the problems with Linux goes deeper than just a single attribute such as WiFi. I spent my weekend trying to get MRTG or Cacti functioning to avail and alas here is Monday. Honestly, I think my problem might lay with my MySql program since it's giving access problems. To stay on track though with my point; Linux is still HARD to configure. I think manufacturers would like to market their products and have them work immediately. That's why most go down the Windows route.

The thing I find interesting about all this. . .

[Fantastic Lad]

Linux is the result of a lot of people who don't want to be slaves to somebody else's megalomaniacal vision. Linux is a concrete expression of freedom and self-direction and all the good things society can be. Sharing and openness and ingenuity, etc.

WiFi is an expression of exactly the opposite. Microwave signals are a bad idea for a number of reasons.

--Here's a neat item worth considering. . .

The Neurophone, (look it up), demonstrated that one could transmit messages via electrical impulse through the skin and have those messages understood by the subconscious. When the subject being programmed is in a dissociative state, (you are in a dissociative state when you watch TV or play a video game), it was demonstrated that one could send instructions to the subconscious through the skin and thereby implant hypnotic suggestions. Subjects would follow these suggestions, believing them to be their own thoughts and ideas. They'd never heard the instructions given to them verbally. They had received them by direct electrical impulse. This isn't science fiction.

Okay. So cellphones, when outputting a 10 htz modulated signal, can directly buzz the brain with much the same effect. What a great system for delivering instructions!

Mind control is frighteningly easy. Heck, the Russians figured out how to beam voices directly into a person's head using EM back in the sixties.

WiFi in my house and on all the time? Um. . , gee, no thanks. There's enough garbage signal floating around my town as it is without beaming my own personalized source through my own home 24/7.

Now people will argue with this up and down. Fair enough. They can make their own decisions and refuse to acknowledge the information available. They don't want to be laughed at. But the cool thing is that Linux, for a number of reasons, is incompatible with this mode of social control. --You have to really really want it to microwave your head before it will comply. Now don't you think that's interesting? I sure do!

If you refuse to follow the leader and refuse to install your very own mind-control device in your home, then, well by gum, you don't even need a tin-foil hat. Bonus!

How sure are you that the impulses which guide you to follow self-destructive, limiting patterns at key moments of your life are really coming from within yourself?

The Matrix has you. Have a nice day!

-FL