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

[Vanco, Don]

Have you tried the user-agent switcher to have the browser represent
itself as IE?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Alexandros Papadopoulos
>Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:14 AM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] [rant] D-Link Access Point requires a M$ 
>machine to use...
>
>
>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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