You know what they say,.....In a perfect world, evryone would eat 2 eggs a
day, and drive a Saturn. I think that self-loading driver chips would be a
little too perfect ! Great idea, but too much to hope for !
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Netgear FA310TX card in Mandrake 7.1
> 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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