[wplug] [rant] D-Link Access Point requires a M$ machine to use...

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

Hi folks.

As difficult as it sounds, the good people over at D-Link have managed 
to create products that have a user-friendly administrative web 
interface which doesn't work with Mozilla or Konqueror. It only works 
with Internet Explorer, and hence requires a Microsoft machine to use.

I am attaching the offending page, in case someone knows enough about 
javascript to be able to discern how they manage to break the code 
enough to make it work only on IE. The thing breaks when one enters the 
WEP key - it simply will not accept it with anything else than IE.

This is extremely disturbing to me, because the mentality of D-Link's 
support person I was troubleshooting this with, seems to be prevailing: 
"Why don't you try this from a Windows machine, just to be sure that 
it's not Linux's fault?"

This is a DWL-2000+, which I believe is not sold on the US market. 
Nevertheless, as a consumer and non-Microsoft user, I wish I had some 
sort of defense against such discriminatory practices.

Cheers

-A


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