[PLUG] Lycoris NFS?

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Fri Mar 28 23:19:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 18:23, guy1656 wrote:
> : and the name of the module that your network card uses.  
> : latter can be found by trial and error (and some educated guessing).
> 
> My education ins in mechanical engineering some metallurgy, and some foundry 
> work. As for educated guessing, I bought the card at Fry's months if not 
> years ago. Earlier on I said I don't want to be 1/2 way through and have to 
> unscrew the shround, pull something out and say, 'Oh it's a model 
> D33RF93FJS2243. Neat. Now I can forget that number again.'

The education I'm talking about happened before and after you bought the
card.  That decision must have been based on some sort of information
processing, or did you just buy the cheapest thing there and now expect
it to work out of the box on every OS?
> 
> So, since in my case 'educated guessing' us not an option, I'm looking for a 
> distro that can iterrogate what's on that card and make it work. And I'll be 
> watching a DVD in the next room in the meantime.

No distribution can do that for all hardware.  I will admit it would be
nice, but since no OS can do it for all hardware, I chose to learn one
that can install consistently on a large variety of hardware.
> 
> : Tough it out through an install on an old Pentium system, it will then
> : be a very user-friendly install :)
> 
> This is like telling a guy wants an easy way to lift a rock that, instead of 
> using a unser friendly lever, Bobcat, or whatever, that the answer is to 
> spend months weight training so that the rock doesn't feel heavy. Not 
> practical in the short term - so that's why I'm leery of Debian.

But it feels great to know that I can move mountains without the fragile
lever or the fuel sucking (and limited) machine.  (It also feels great
to know that I own the mountain and can modify it in any way I want
to.)  I also feel that I'm not in this for the short term, I'm pretty
much banking on the fact that there is going to be a need for OS
installs in the future.

Derek Loree





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