--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "pmooney22" <kwacka2@...> wrote:
>
> The O/P requested advice on how to get a particular device working and, with
> respect to the O/P the comment that they were having difficuly in installing
> a driver suggested to me that they were new to GNU/Linux.
>
> The O/P did NOT ask (until another poster mentioned this) about configuring
> the kernel, and posts then moved to whether the driver in question would be
> in a newer kernel (the file linked is 5 years old, the original driver was a
> decade ago so a newer kernel is largely irrelevent)
That is nice but I was not replying to the original poster I was replying to
you.
>
> I agree with much of what you say; it would be ideal if everybody utilised
> LFS and built their own drivers; but I'd suggest that comes after topics such
> as kernel configuration which, in turn, came after software compilation and
> driver installation, which might (in turn) would follow advice on installing
> a popular distribution (Mint, Ubuntu et al). I don't expect anybody to advise
> a user to start off on Gentoo, or even Arch Linux.
I started off with Slackware in the 90s and I survived.
>
> It may well be that the O/P has no interest in developing skills beyond those
> of a user, rather than an expert on GNU/Linux, and merely wants to use a
> particular device that they possess. That is their prerogative.
Then it is my prerogative to tell users like that I feel they are wasting their
time.
>
> I agree there is nothing magic about compiling a kernel. However I would
> suggest that there are many linux users that have never compiled a kernel, in
> the same way there are possibly millions that have never used the
> 'power'-shell when running Windows, and new users should be encouraged rather
> than it be suggested that you 'have to' compile a kernel as a first step.
Why? We are talking about Linux aren't we? Either use it, or don't.
>
> Regards
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