Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:26:59 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: stefan@pong.ppp.de (Stefan Bethke) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <199610110157.LAA21094@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v03007800ae832079eb64@[193.141.161.123]> from "Stefan Bethke" at Oct 11, 96 00:00:45 am
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Stefan Bethke stands accused of saying: > > Well, the few times I had to install '95 or NT (not that I would suggest > '95 being an OS or anything), it detected the hardware (SMC Ultra, NE2000 > clones) without problems (the other cards were PCI). Also I've been told > that '95 typically detects hardware quite nicely (I'm not talking PnP or > PCI). > > I now have installed both 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 a few times, and I think better > automatic probes would be helpful for people "who probably have no clue". You're quite welcome to write one. You do realise that the "if the disk light stops blinking you should turn the machine off and on again" thing is largely there because the sort of brutal probing necessary to find an NE2000 is just the sort of thing that totally screws other devices (eg. SCSI controllers etc.). > P.S. if only the visual editor would support pcvt correctly... What makes you say it doesn't? And if it doesn't, where's the pr explaining the problem? How can we fix something if nobody will tell us that it's broken? > Stefan Bethke <stefan@pong.ppp.de> -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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