{"id":1382,"date":"2005-04-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/very-disappointed-by-3com\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T10:00:00","slug":"very-disappointed-by-3com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/very-disappointed-by-3com\/","title":{"rendered":"very disappointed by 3Com."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought myself a shiny new wireless adapter, a 3Com OfficeConnect 802.11g<br \/>\n(3CRWE154G72), which I thought has native and good support under Linux through the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/prism54.org\" title=\"the brave OpenSource developers who have to develop a driver\nwithout having access to the hardware specifications\">prism54<\/a> driver. However, after fiddling a<br \/>\nbit around with the drivers, I came to the conclusion that 3Com has fooled their users. They changed<br \/>\nthe chip inside the card and kept PCI and FCC ID the same: Result: The card is not supported<br \/>\nalthough it seems so in the first place. Thank you 3Com, you just lost a customer. :-(<\/p>\n<p>To save other users the same disappointment, I hereby recommend: <strong>Do not<br \/>\nbuy 3com OfficeConnect wireless cards, you have a good chance that it&#8217;s not supported although 3Com<br \/>\ntries to make you think that.<\/strong> Very bad behaviour, it&#8217;s a shame for such a big company to<br \/>\nlet their users out in the cold. 3Com also does <strong>nothing<\/strong> to get their hardware<br \/>\nsupported in free operating systems, so again: <strong>Do not buy 3Com hardware!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought myself a shiny new wireless adapter, a 3Com OfficeConnect 802.11g (3CRWE154G72), which I thought has native and good support under Linux through the prism54 driver. However, after fiddling a bit around with the drivers, I came to the conclusion that 3Com has fooled their users. They changed the chip inside the card&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/very-disappointed-by-3com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">very disappointed by 3Com.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}