On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Actually, you did (but not deliberately). Knoppix (from at least this
year) gets both up and running automagically. Get them the newest
Knoppix, and next time you're over there to fix their Windows system
again, throw Knoppix in and let them have at it.
Not true: neither the soundcard nor the network card were detected
automatically. I think his network card was a 3com 3c59x or some
permutation of those letters. There's a "common" variety and a "less
common" variety. I googled whatever it was plus +debian and found out
some completely non-intuitive driver you could substitute for it, and
why Knoppix didn't support it out of box. Never could quite figure out
what the issue was with Alsa.
Of course I could have set there and dinked with it until it worked, but
that's what I told them they'd have to do and they don't want to do it.
They're still stuck in that "just run setup.exe" from the vendor's
website mindset.