On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:48:51PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Actually, you did (but not deliberately). Knoppix (from at least this > > year) gets both up and running automagically. Get them the newest > > Knoppix, and next time you're over there to fix their Windows system > > again, throw Knoppix in and let them have at it. > > Not true: neither the soundcard nor the network card were detected > automatically. I think his network card was a 3com 3c59x or some > permutation of those letters. There's a "common" variety and a "less > common" variety. I googled whatever it was plus +debian and found out > some completely non-intuitive driver you could substitute for it, and > why Knoppix didn't support it out of box. Never could quite figure out > what the issue was with Alsa. > > Of course I could have set there and dinked with it until it worked, but > that's what I told them they'd have to do and they don't want to do it. > > They're still stuck in that "just run setup.exe" from the vendor's > website mindset.
That's weird - that Knoppix has problems with 3Com network cards but boot-floppies can cope OK. I like these cards because they Just Work. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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