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Idea #12642: more wireless improvement

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #295: Better wi-fi support.
Written by cyborgee the 28 Aug 08 at 22:36. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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for me as system engineer for Microsoft product for more than 6 years , i can say that ubuntu is very effective OS, and i tried for some time but the problem is with the wireless and sharing option, in windows you can share the internet very easy between two computer through wireless, but with ubuntu i couldn't, so it's need some tools , to provide Ad-Hoc option to the wireless so we can connect two notebook , and also the internet sharing service so we can share the internet between them.
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Written by cyborgee the 28 Aug 08 at 22:36.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 01:24
2.6.27 had better wireless ad-hoc support.
Ubuntu 8.10 will have better wireless support due to network-manager 0.7

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 05:47
Network-manager 0.7 couldn't come soon enough. Too bad it wasn't started earlier so it would be more feature-complete and useful now. Oh well, it was a good idea. Help is on the way, and I believe that the last few wireless chipset companies will soon bend to pressure to release specifications about their hardware so the drivers can be developed.

+1

Auzy wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 07:24
I think that Plugin support for network-manager would go a long way towards this idea

tenplus1 wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 08:34
+1 agreed... The network manager is very limited in setting up a proper working internet share and wireless card, but I did manage to have it fully working by hand-editing some files...

Firestarter helps with the Share Internet tick-box, but the wireless settings need more work...

Eldmannen wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 18:18
andruk,
2.6.26 came with support for Atheros wireless. :)

supernova_hq wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 23:14
WICD has some ad-hoc stuff in it, but I still have not been able to either share a connection, or bridge my wireless and wired together (both trivial in XP).


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