[Gllug] Whinge

[George F. Saxby]

Matt,
 I have had this with NIC's in college machines.
Remove ALL the references under device mangler & in network neigh. properties 
.. Shutdown the machine remove card reboot SEVERAL times then re-install the 
card . Hopefully doze will find it install it once Providing you do not abort 
at any time in the proceedure because it cannot find the driver some place.
 Sorry if this is teaching proverbial grandpa to suck eggs.





On Saturday 08 September 2001 21:52, your missive said : -
 > I have to cancel out of yet another discovery of my modem each time I boot
 > up windows. After installing the same modem with the same drivers from the
 > same CDROM on the same serial port, Windoze still insists that it has just
 > made a new discovery.
 >
 > Matt
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk>
 > To: gllug at linux.co.uk
 > Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:17:47 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
 > Subject: Re: [Gllug] Whinge
 >
 > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, will at hellacool.co.uk stipulated:
 > > > From: "David Damerell" <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
 > > >
 > > >> >and it *is* easier to add new hardware on windows especially for
 > > >> >novice users
 > > >>
 > > >> This is demonstrably false. I am not a novice Windows user and I live
 > > >> with a professional Windows admin; yet my recent hardware change has
 > > >> not been adequately resolved after four hours work and may yet
 > > >> require reinstallation of the OS.
 > > >
 > > > I don't see how it is demonstrably false.  When I have plugged kit
 > > > into a windows machine it has generally worked, a lot of the time
 > > > without actually having to install drivers.
 > >
 > > I've had cases with Windows telling me that it has found three `Unknown
 > > Devices', and could I insert the driver disk for the `Unknown
 > > Device'. Even though it could have determined at least what *class* of
 > > device this is (so I'd have known whether to insert a graphics card,
 > > network card, or PIIX bridge driver disk, or something entirely else),
 > > it didn't bother; or if it did, it didn't tell me, and there was no way
 > > to coerce it to.
 > >
 > > You can't call *that* good UI design.
 > >
 > > --
 > > `It's all about bossing computers around. Users have to say "please".
 > > Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
 > > -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming
 > >
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george
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