Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:27 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VAIO 505F vs Toshiba 3015CT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990112115500.10442E-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <14979.916169266@cloud.rain.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bill Trost wrote: > Dan Busarow writes: > Win98 will lockup if you eject an *ethernet* card without doing > their equiv of ifconfig down :) Told my partner he was nuts until he > showed me, and showed me the help section on downing it first. > > [jaw drops in disbelief] > > No way! I knew Windows networking was bad, but I didn't know it was > getting worse over time! I yank my Linksys (NE2K) card out from under > Win95 all the time. Do you have a funky ether card, or am I being more > selective of what protocols I install, or is it really that bad?? Just on 98, Win95 behaves normally. Only TCP/IP installed and It's a Linksys card. Laptop is a Compaq [mumble] that came with Win98 installed. It's even documented, Start/Help/Index/PC Cards/Removing (course it doesn't say failing to go through the procedure will hang the system, but it does :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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