Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008, ionut cucu wrote:
> > > The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound
> > > supported on linux.
>
> Should you follow the path of the manual you'll find interesting
> links about sound cards support on linux, as for ethernet, if you
> dan;t have drivers from linux you can use the windows ones(this is
> true for ethernet to right?)

I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years that 
wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box on any 
old arb Linux system. Sometimes I had hassles with FibreChannel and 
related technologies while it was relatively new, but a quick 
comparison with the same hardware running RedHat sorted that out in a 
jiffy. Usually I have stuff that genuinely just worked while the 
windows colleagues battled like mad for weeks to find suitable 
drivers ;-)

The thing you are referring to is ndiswrapper, which is useful for 
wireless devices. I dunno if it copes with ethernet too, but seeing as 
I know of no case in the world where it was necessary it's a bit of a 
moot point

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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