[keithpeter]

Wifi issues have been due to kernel/driver problems in the past and have been seen in each of the major distros (depending on the sequence with which a given kernel and driver appear in the distribution).

Logging your issues as a bug and then getting the other people in the forums to join the bug would help people cross reference the issue.

Does anyone else remember the WiFi power management kernel panic bug back in 12.04 development? Got squashed well before release.

[ColinWright]

  > Logging your issues as a bug and then getting
  > the other people in the forums to join the bug
  > would help people cross reference the issue.

So step-by-step, how and where do I do that?

[frank_boyd]

Does this help? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Btw, reporting bugs is contributing to open-source. It's a way of giving back, for getting the resulting product of billions of man hours (and woman hours) of work, for free.

[ColinWright]

It might - I've skimmed it, and I think I can find everything I need in there. Thank you.

I fully recognize that me spending time on a bug report is a way of contributing to open-source. I have no problems with that, and I look forward, in some sense, to doing so. My comments are, as I say elsewhere, trying to help as well, to try to help make the system better by recognizing that it is currently optimized for people who already know a lot, and are willing to spend a lot of time trying to work out how to do stuff.

Most of the world isn't like that, so maybe something can be done to help make Ubuntu fit the world better.

When I get time I'll move over to the laptop and get started. I'll also log my time, and see what actually happens in the long run.

Many thanks for your response.

[hrkristian]

Last time I checked man-hours does not refer to the male gender...