[TriLUG] WIFI EAP-TTLS connection issue

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

To be fair I should be clear that wifi is always a minor extra headache in
debain because of its only free options on install.  I am yet to install
debian on a laptop and not need a wired connection afterwards to install a
non-free wifi driver.

Well one exception is on the chromebook but that is in a chroot so really
the wifi driver is handled by the custom Gentoo spin that is Chrome OS.

Ken

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> Mainstream maybe, but more so the distros designed more for people coming
> from OSs that hide more of the base layers from you.  Ubuntu and yes Mint
> as well.  We have two more Mint instances in this house to swap out for
> debian.  Thankfully debian now comes with cinnamon and mate desktop options
> for those in the family hat have gotten used to those.  Although cinammon
> has been buggy.  Frankly everyone in this house that needs a more hand
> holding WM/DE is starting to get used to gnome 3.  I must confess gnome3 is
> not bad if that is what you want.  I would definitely take it over unity.
> Personally I have moved over 100% to openbox for my wm.
>
> But the main base distros I find to be sane safe places to start if you
> know what you are doing or are willing to rtfm with maybe a friend to hold
> your hand.  Debian, Fedora, Slack, Arch, and heck OpenSUSE and FreeBSD can
> do just about whatever you ask of them if you are willing to do it
> yourself.  They all make great desktop environments, well BSD not as much.
> Most of them are also good server environments.  It is one of the reasons I
> like using just plain debian so much as I find it is very easy to translate
> to both environments.
>
> Ken
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Linux is nice when it works, but can be very painful/time consuming when
>>> it doesn't.
>>>
>>
>> Lately, I am noticing that other more mainstream operating systems are
>> even more painful when they don't work.  There seems to be fewer knobs to
>> turn, and the discussions about fixes seem to be very superficial "black
>> box" suggestions to try this or that voodoo magic, without any attempt to
>> understand the underlying issues. Peruse https://discussions.apple.com/
>> and you'll get a taste of what I mean.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
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