Well my experience has been the contrary. On one I provided a Win 2K box and the tech did the install with no probs on my own NIC. I then showed him how easy the Linux install was and he left me with the Supplied NIC (loose) and the filter.
In the other case I arrived on site at the same time as the tech and hadn't unpacked the old Win 2K out of my car. I asked him if he needed it as it was going to be Linux anyway. He said no worries he had his laptop in hand and checked the line ran with that. We slipped the supplied NIC in the Linux box and then did the Linux setup. In my case both techs were very competent. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > The Telstra BigPondDirect - ADSL Linux Howto type document > > This refers to an installation on RedHat 7.2 so ymmv. > > When the Telstra "Technician" came to my door to install my Telstra ADSL > I was > curious why he had this massive hand book. Telstral _DO NOT_ support > Linux, the > reason for this is that the "Technicians" are incompetent. Had I not > been on hand to > install the NIC, this guy would still be here, it was pathetic. could > not even add a windows > driver for the NIC, I had to do it for him....</rant> > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
