Why is this so difficult, are the NICs (and sound cards and video cards
etc...) so proprietary that it becomes a nightmare for the OS programmers to
keep up? It seems like the periphial should be self-contained and
self-describing.
You know what would be really cool is if the vendors could actually load the
3 or 4 drivers (Linux, Windows, MAC, BeOS, OS2, Solaris) onto the card so
the kernel programmer would need only to write a mechanism to query the
periphial for its identity and to instruct it to "install" itself into the
OS. The OS programmers wouldn't have to keep up with all the different
vendors NICs or whatever. The "install mechanism" could hopefully be
standardize so that the periphial vendor didn't have to keep up with all the
OS crap. It seems like a 1/2 a meg or a meg would be plenty of space to
keep a all various OS flavors of drivers. It seems like even 4 megs are
cheap enough these days to supply on board memory.
But anyway I suppose that would significantly increase the cost of the
periphial because it would require vendors to spend money on the circuitry
layout and how to actually accomplish the feat.
I guess there's still a lot of mysticism involved with building computers &
components and the software to run them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan LaBine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Netgear FA310TX card in Mandrake 7.1
Use the "tulip" drivers that come with Mandrake. They work perfectly with
that exact card. I'm running 3 of them on my lan with no problems
whatsoever.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: [newbie] Netgear FA310TX card in Mandrake 7.1
> I'm having trouble installing the drivers for my Netgear FA310TX
> card. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> dave.
>
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