Re: Making linux more user friendly

From: Analabha Roy (daneelNOSPAM_at_physics.utexas.edu)
Date: 07/13/05 

Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:56:01 -0500

Walter Mautner wrote:

>
> More exactly, a common distribution kernel already contains every module
> from sis, via, intel chipsets, old 3com NIC cards to gigabit interfaces,
> no-name ac97 onboard sound up to turtlebeach, and the kitchensink. Much
> more than is available with a barebone windows install which asks for a
> mainboard driver cd, and for drivers for almost every new part you put in.
> So what more do you want?

 Exactly! I have a cf 802.11b wifi card that I wanted to use in a laptop
(with a cf-pcmcia adapter). The card has an orinoco chipset, & windoze
couldn't get it to work with one of it's drivers (the vendor supplied a
driver cd, but only for pocketpc). I booted linux & it ran fine on the
orinoco_cs.o driver (it was meant for pcmcia, but pcmcia & cf are the same
thing basically, just lower voltage).

 So one for linux, 0 for windoze.

Plus, my lowest pci expansion slot's not detected by windoze 'device
manager' thingie for some wierd reason, but I can see it in "lspci" output
in linux (& the card connected to it works also).

 Windoze may work well on generic hardware, but it has quirks you may not
notice at first. Linux is so transparent thatit will give you all the
information you need about your computer and interact better with your
hardware.

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