Auf den ersten flüchtigen Blick könnte die Front genauso gut die Rückseite sein. Denn anders als die meisten Notebooks besitzt es vorne wie hinten eine sehr steil und plötzlich abfallende Kante. Dank den Statusleuchten und Anschlüssen gestaltet sich das Finden der Vorderseite glücklicherweise denkbar einfach.

Hier gefunden. Wenn man nicht weiss, was man schreiben soll, sollte man es vielleicht einfach lassen...

My laptop, IBM ThinkPad A31p has a Prism 2.5 chip. It's a good chipset: while only having 11 mbit, I have excellent reception (so I often have 11 mbit when others with their 54 mbit chipsets only have 2 mbit; and often have network where others won't have link anymore). And mind you, unless when transferring large files 11 mbit is more than enough.

This chipset also has good driver support. There is not just one opensource driver, there are two. The first is the "orinoco" driver, the second is the "hostap" driver, which also supports host mode (i.e. running it in access point mode).

However, they differ a bit in supported features, which can be quite annoying. Hostap has much more features, and much better wireless scanning IMHO. But it's not included with the default kernel, making installation slightly more complex (i.e. having to run "m-a a-i hostap-source" for each new kernel once).

Also sometimes the two drivers would both load, which would confuse them; the hostap driver would also (sometimes?) lock up my system on unload. Also hostap would show some mysterious "wifi0" device I still have no idea what it's good for. Thats why I had recently disabled the hostap driver, and switched to orinoco.

However, the friend I'm staying with right now uses a WPA encrypted wireless network, and apparently the orinoco driver doesn't support WPA. So I'm back to using the hostap driver right now.

Running a vote usually is a bad signal. It often means someone is trying to push an issue which is doesn't have wide enough support. Ideally, we would have consensus.

Anyway, the results for the votes are in, and most are pretty clear results. For example the recall vote with 48:277 - the proponents would have barely made the quorum (48 is the minimum quorum).

At the Google Summer of Code, there was a talk on "Poisonous people" (blogged about by others before) - and while many big voices in this discussion clearly are top contributors, they show a couple of signs for "poisonous people" (which often are just drop-bys).

So if you're now leaving the project because of the vote - so be it. The discussion is over. We'll just go on doing our Debian work as before, because we're still Debian, and Debian is still us. That hasn't changed. So if you thing we've changed radically (which I doubt we have), you're as free to leave as you've always been. If you think we're still the same, please remain with us, and help making Debian what it has always been: a volunteer effort.

[Update: there was one vote 2-, which is the same as 12, but maybe he meant it to be 21 instead? Then the 'recall' people would even have missed the quorum!]

[Update #2: I'd like to share this quote with you (from LWN comments):

Debian is indeed a more balanced 'organisation' than it appears to be from its mailing lists. That doesn't actually surprise me, but it's nice to have it affirmed.