On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > I'm entirely too busy/lazy to bother. If I drop some random network card > into a system I'd be much happier to let kudzu (or a similar tool) check > the PCI ID and at least tell me the appropriate driver, rather than > digging around google searching for pci id's, random chip numbers, or > whatever the company rebadged it as. > > This is what I meant by being macho, let the system do some of the work > =) Guess I've been burned by Kudzu too many times.. 'course, I haven't actually used it in the last couple years, because it kept trying to load the wrong drivers on me. 'course, I also generally purchase cards that I know the driver for (d-link cards with tulip chipsets, e100/1000's, and 3c59x's), so it's not a problem to know which driver to use. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list