On Wednesday 26 March 2008, ionut cucu wrote: > > > The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound > > > supported on linux. > > Should you follow the path of the manual you'll find interesting > links about sound cards support on linux, as for ethernet, if you > dan;t have drivers from linux you can use the windows ones(this is > true for ethernet to right?)
I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box on any old arb Linux system. Sometimes I had hassles with FibreChannel and related technologies while it was relatively new, but a quick comparison with the same hardware running RedHat sorted that out in a jiffy. Usually I have stuff that genuinely just worked while the windows colleagues battled like mad for weeks to find suitable drivers ;-) The thing you are referring to is ndiswrapper, which is useful for wireless devices. I dunno if it copes with ethernet too, but seeing as I know of no case in the world where it was necessary it's a bit of a moot point -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
