Re: Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

kd4e schrieb:
> Acer chooses with whom they sign contracts for sub-devices like wireless
> nics.  If they had insisted on nics with Linux drivers they would have
> received them.  Other companies have.  I already own Linux-friendly
> b/g/n devices, so it is nothing bleeding-edge to do so.
> 
> There are drivers out there for Atheros b/g/n nics but I don't have the
> time to chase them down and fuss with Alpha drivers - this laptop was
> to be a productivity tool - right now it's a defective piece of hardware.
> 
> Since I told the salesman it was for Linux and was not warned it was
> non-Linux compatible they will get it back.
> 
> Manufactures need to stop wasting the time of customers and give
> us what we want - in this economy customers are getting harder to
> find - and Linux use is growing like crazy.
> 

send it back because you can not use it
most people i know simply use a usb-stick (or a boot-cd)
and buy only computer that work.

re,
 wh