Wifi and Linux (Was: [Gllug] Linux on Desktop )

[Ryan Cartwright]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> 
>> Agreed but my point was not that the card was not supported but that
>> Netgear changed the chipset on a product and didn't release it as a
>> different version.
> 
> I'm surprised people don't simply return them as not being what they are 
> advertised as.

I guess with the average buyer being a Windows user they don't really
care as long as the CD it is supplies with contains the correct driver.

> Clearly the v2 card was based upon a specific hardware chipset. Changing 
> that means the product is not what it was marketed/sold as - it is a 
> different product.

exactly.

> Hardware manufacturers have no incentive to clearly mark changed products 
> unless they suffer a penalty for not doing so.

I guess the only people in this instance who would complain would be
Linux users. Are our complaints more or less likely to fall on deaf
ears? I should have complained to them but the horse has well and truly
bolted now.

Ryan
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Ryan Cartwright
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