Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 10/22/04

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    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. 

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