James Washer wrote: > I doubt that there should be any problems supporting this card > on just about any version of any distro based on a 2.4 > kernel... I'm a fan of solving problems, not just trying things > till the problems go away... Just my take, I'm not saying other > approaches are incorrect. I just prefer to figure things out.. > that's what I like about linux.. that we have the source and > can fix problems.. unlike with windows, where we are pretty > much forced to wait for some vendor somewhere to 'give' us a > fix.
I certainly wasn't negating the importance of actually solving a problem rather than upgrading out of it. The thing was, Mandrake 7.1 _doesn't_ use the 2.4 kernel. It ships with 2.2.15, which is the primary reason I suggested an upgrade. 7.1 was actually a surprisingly stable distro out-of-the-box, as 7.0 and 7.2 both had stability issues. (Or maybe 7.1 just stood up to my tinkering better...) :) It would've been quite possible to simply upgrade the kernel without upgrading the distro en masse, but as mdk7.1 rpms were scarce several years ago, it'd be unlikely Jay could've done it without recompiling from source. I'm not sure how Jay feels about this, but I know that I wasn't up to recompiling when I was still trying to get it installed. Anyway, that's my take as well. ;) Cheers, Tim -- ANIME LAW OF JUVENILE OMNIPOTENCE Always send a boy to do a man's job. He'll get it done in half the time and twice the angst. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
