on 9/22/00 4:34 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: >> Say what you want but when it comes to spending 6 to 8 hours in just getting >> a network card >> to work, I will always go with the OS that allows me to not only see the dang >> netword card >> but to set up TCP/IP, DNS, NetBUI, WINS, and DHCP, and do all of this in less >> than an hour. >> This time saving element allows me to have some time to _play_ in Linux. >> Just my humble >> observation........... > > One hour?? My observations differ.. you can do all that and more in less > than a few minutes on Linux.. no need to play with TCP/IP, NetBUI, WINS > etc. etc.. > That's if you have everything you need and know exactly what to do. For me I didn't have the card running until 3 days after I put it in. You have a lot to read and places to go to download things then put them in the right places and then it doesn't work so you have to try something else, more reading and searching through list archives and web sites then the instructions don't work. Add in that you may not have much time to spend working on this in a given day plus the time it takes for help to come back from a mailing list and things can take several days. > About the ethernet card, look at the h/w database b4 you buy somethign.. if > you had any 3COM card, that wouldnt' have been a problem.. dont' blame > linux for not providing drivers, blame the h/w vendors.. I think anyone who buys one has a right to be ticked - it has a great big yellow sticker on the box with a penguin on it that says "works in linux!" it could have been a 2 minute install if linksys had a compiled version of the driver on the floppy in an RPM or less than that if your distribution has a proper driver included. (not an option here because the changes in the code to support this particular card are too new) >people around the > world are trying their best to get all possible h/w to work in linux.. which is very cool! I was able to get a nice little nic card for cheap because some guy spends his spare time working on the tulip driver code. Still, this OS is not for the timid - maybe by next year. Gavin
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