Re: [Sheflug] Re: No connection yet

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:16:56PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> >         I still have no connections. The two PC's connected by
> > NE2000 ethernet cards (works OK under windows) will not talk to each
> > other under Linux (SuSE 6.4). I have finally found out how to get
> > yast to admit that there IS an ethernet card in the computer (Yast2
> > the graphic installer told me the card was not detected). Now there
> > are a host of other things which need to be set up correctly before
> > it will work.
> 
> This is normal with Linux.  MS Windoze will work with any old crappy
> hardware.  When you try to use it with Linux you'll find any faults. 
> If you do need to get hold of an NE 2000 card that works then go to
> Maplin Electronics and they'll sell you one for about £15.  
> 

Careful. Windows will not _obviously fail_ with any old crappy hardware.
Linux will report errors and, where possible, work around them. Windows
will not notice errors, silently corrupt essential data, and be prone
to even more crashes than usual when it has dodgy hardware.

A.D.

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