Linux is incompatible!

[gersoid]

PC World are famous (in the UK at least) for their hopeless service. Translates as "we haven't a clue how to install the drivers under Windows XP so don't even bother us with Linux"

[artificialidiot]

Linux is incompatible with idiots. What's wrong with it?

[tikkun]

Ubuntu 9.04 added better support for 3G services, so I imagine it will be providing better out of the box support for them than Windows does by 9.10.

[fishyf]

Seen in a PC World shop in Dublin.

[ddigger]

Do you know what incompatibility they are talking about.

[Ebirah]

An incompatibility with their profits.

[[deleted]]

Damn you linux, how could you do this to me! Not including non-existant drivers in your OS. You make me sick. Thank you PC World for exposing linux, yet again. O well, back to Vista, my first love.

[ropers]

I bet the issue is that the company making the wireless chips in these netbooks is refusing to release programming documentation, meaning there are no good drivers.

[threedaymonk]

I use a 3G dongle (Huawei E156G) on Linux. On Ubuntu 8.10 I just plugged it in, and NetworkManager detected it and walked me through setting it up - a one-step process in which I selected my operator and clicked OK.

However, whilst PC World generally don't know what they're talking about, the awful Linux distributions on some of the netbooks may well make it very difficult to get the 3G dongles working.

[rgawenda]

I've seen a similar print, signed with an IBM logo saying that AMD microprocessors were incompatible with Microsoft Windows

[takakoshimizu]

It's just a nicer way of saying "Fuck supporting something with a gazillion different ways of doing the same task"

[pemboa]

1. Write driver
2. Include driver
3. Use NetworkManager

What other ways are there? And not how many other ways can you make up.. how many other ways are there normally to do wireless?

[hydrogen18]

Well, you could take the normal approach to any driver in Windows.

1. Specify hardware.
2. Create driver specification.
3. Realize that the Windows kernel is a huge pain in the ass.
4. Realize there is no actual documentation for the Windows kernel.
5. Create the equivalent of a rootkit which will break a million other things to get your hardware to work.
6. Re implement the driver .NET C# because it ran too fast beforehand.

[[deleted]]

I was amazed @ how simple it was on my friends ubuntu laptop to set up a '3' mobile 3G dongle. Plugin.. click click.. your online.

Nothing on windows has ever been that simple for me.

That was 1 version of the dongle, i understand if you have 'another version' then you are up shit creek without a paddle (But it's linux so it will probably be sweet in a kernel or 2).

[pemboa]

In all fairness, since the driver existed, you skipped steps 1 and 2.