On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 03:05:40PM -0600, Gabe Harriman wrote:
> FYI: A friend of mine had them come out to do the RR install on
> his Win98 machine (he's not a linux junky yet :) ) and they
> destroyed his machine trying to install the network card
> drivers.. I know you will think its partially my friends fault
> for running windows 98, but before you start slamming him,
> think of how easy it is to install a network card on windows
> 95, let alone, windows 98! You just stick the damned thing in,
> and when windows boots up, you just stick a driver disk in the
> floppy drive - IF you even have to do that?! Anyways, needless
> to say, the guy left my friend's computer in shambles and my
> friend ended up having to format his hard drive and
> re-installing windows completely. Now, that's a windows
> problem.. So, how competent are these guys coming out to
> install cable modems on these peoples computers?
>
> Gabriel Harriman
Should be careful about jumping to conclusions. I don't think
I've ever seen more potential for trashing a hard drive than
letting Windows 95 "auto detect" your hardware for you. Plus,
the dll system in Windows is just completely fkd. It almost
seems as if any piece of Windows software is capable of breaking
any other (including the OS itself). Drivers should not usually
be affected but this dll trauma, but I've seen some really
counter-intuitive stuff happen with Win95 and NT (haven't gotten
98). You may very well be right about whoever came out to
install the RR service, but I could easily imagine a scenario
where you're not.
My experience has been less than perfect as well, but not for the
same reason. The router to which I'm connected just seems pretty
flaky (sometimes I can login, and sometimes I can't), and I've
had marginal success getting acknowledge that there "might" be a
problem from RR so far.
Btw, has anyone had difficulty connecting their old ISA ne2000
clone NIC to the cable modem? Doesn't work ever for me. I have
to use my auto-sensing Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100Mbps card to
connect to the modem and the crappy ne2000 over the 10/100Mbps
hub to talk to the other machines in the room
Btw, has anyone had difficulty connecting their old ISA ne2000
clone NIC to the cable modem? Doesn't work ever for me. I have
to use my auto-sensing Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100Mbps card to
connect to the modem and the crappy ne2000 over the 10/100Mbps
hub to talk to the other machines in the room. I think I'm going
to have to break down and try buying another 10Mbps card, but I
sure don't see why I need to.
On the other side of the coin, what 10Mbps cards supported by
Linux have people not had any difficulty with?
- rick
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