Very Computer

It went something like this:

Open the case.

Push out the blanking plate

Swear at the case manufacturer for using push out blanking plates
resulting in me not having enough screws any more.

Put in the NIC

Screw it up.

Put the case on

Plug bits in

Boot up.

kudzo loads.

Enter the IP address.

Away!

I had to include the hardware bit to make it look like I'd done something.

It's too easy. This has been my experience (more or less) with adding
hardware since RH5.2 (my forst distro). This is why I am skeptical about
the wintrolls with all these problems. I've simply never had them.

All problems I have had have been with faulty hardware. All the other
problems have been with Win9X which is quite frankly awful.

-Ed

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Quote:>I installed a new NIC in a frien's RH 6.2 box today.

I tried to configure it manually and it failed. I told it to use via-rhine,
then it worked.

Quote:>It's too easy. This has been my experience (more or less) with adding
>hardware since RH5.2 (my forst distro). This is why I am skeptical about
>the wintrolls with all these problems. I've simply never had them.

Quote:>All problems I have had have been with faulty hardware. All the other
>problems have been with Win9X which is quite frankly awful.

Would it surprise you if I said both of us? And would you understand why?

--
Pete Goodwin
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On that unstable much loved system known as Windows 98 SE.

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The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

Quote:> My own experiences have been the complete opposite of yours. Who is
telling
> the truth here? You or me?

> Would it surprise you if I said both of us? And would you understand why?

What was the brand and model of the network card Pete that Mandrake didn't
recognise?

Regards,
Adam

: My own experiences have been the complete opposite of yours. Who is telling
: the truth here? You or me?

: Would it surprise you if I said both of us? And would you understand why?

It certainly surprised me to hear you mention it.  It almost sounds
like you are trying to be fair-minded.  Why the change?

I had a similar experience recently.  The MoBo of the P90 that's been my
Linux firewall, test bed and gateway died after the power supply
croaked.  I had a P133 sitting around, so I put the Linux HD
in the P133 (which is an ATX as opposed to the P90's AT) and figured I'd
have some work ahead of me.

Huh?  The thing just came up.  Linux said, "Oh, I'm on a P133 now?
Cool!"  And that was it.

        Modified Red Hat 6.1 (Cartman)
        Kernel 2.2.16 on a P133 (for now)
        login:

I know from experience, Windows would have had a major fit.  I would
have sat through endless dialog boxes informing me that "Windows has
found new hardware" and "Windows is now installing the software for your
new hardware" until something irrevocably punted, necessitating a total
reinstall.

Emboldened, I then swapped out the ISA NIC card for the PCI card that
was originally in the 133 and edited a line in conf.modules.  Again, no
worries.  Amazing.

MjM

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                            Delenda est Windoze

        Otherwise, it would try and load a Win9x driver.

[deletia]

Quote:>>It's too easy. This has been my experience (more or less) with adding
>>hardware since RH5.2 (my forst distro). This is why I am skeptical about
>>the wintrolls with all these problems. I've simply never had them.

>You think your own experience is the norm?

[deletia]

        OTOH, most of us have had problems with WinXX that are
        even worse than your "ordeal" with Linux.

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        Also while the herd mentality is certainly there, I think the
        nature of software interfaces and how they tend to interfere
        with free choice is far more critical. It's not enough to merely
        have the "biggest fraternity", you also need a way to trap people
        in once they've made a bad initial decision.
                                                                |||
                                                               / | \

        One is based on the other. They both use the same kernel and
        they both use the same hardware autodetection daemon.

        Short of Mandrake being less tolerant of vidcards that don't
        support X well, I have not seen much significant difference
        between the two in this regard.

        I run them both: Bughat 6.2 for my server and Mandrake 7.x for
        my workstation.

--

        Having seen my prefered platform being eaten away by vendorlock and
        the Lemming mentality in the past, I have a considerable motivation to
        use Free Software that has nothing to do with ideology and everything
        to do with pragmatism.

        Free Software is the only way to level the playing field against a
        market leader that has become immune to market pressures.

        The other alternatives are giving up and just allowing the mediocrity
        to walk all over you or to see your prefered product die slowly.

                                                                |||
                                                               / | \

Easy hey ;-)

Ill take a linux box over a Windows box anyday!

Terry

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Quote:>Even though network cards are extremely well supported in Linux you did
>some research to find an unsupported one?

Quote:>What was the brand and model of the network card Pete that Mandrake
>didn't recognise?

--
Pete Goodwin
---
On that unstable much loved system known as Windows 98 SE.

Quote:>Here's my account of adding a NIC (Ne2000isa) to Win98 box yesterday.

Quote:>1/ open case
>2/ plug in NIC
>3/ powerup pc
>4/ No hardware detected automatically so go to CONTROL-PANEL, DEVICE-MGR
>ADD-NEW-HARDWARE, Select from list (auto detect hangs pc), Novel/Anthem

Quote:>5/ alter settings, suggested by Win98 as the interrupt and i/o are wrong

Quote:>Easy hey ;-)

>Ill take a linux box over a Windows box anyday!

--
Pete Goodwin
---
On that unstable much loved system known as Windows 98 SE.

I haven't installed it on my RH5.2 box, but even though the setup isn't
automagig, it is still very easy to do.

-Ed

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