I suppose my earlier suspicions about MS killing their own products via “update” is one incident closer to proven.
I had Win2K all properly installed, and I was trying to find a WPA Supplicant package for it, since the drivers for the wifi card I had didn’t offer that. Just to make sure we all understand, WPA is not a part of the drivers, nor of the hardware, but a software application. Yet Linksys refuses to create one for a wide range of their products. Since it’s built into XP, they simply won’t bother for other versions of the OS. All you get is WEP, and nobody in their right mind will use WEP to secure their wifi connection. Might as well use nothing.
So I didn’t find that, but I did get an automatic update from MS. It was the last two items lately. I don’t recall what they were, but once installed, upon reboot I got one of those looping BSODs. Enough. I don’t have a legitimate copy of XP for this machine, so I’m ditching Windows. Much as I hate to scramble around for several days trying to get stuff working, I’m going to go with Debian Lenny. It will be big pain in the posterior, but I feel certain it will at least work.
