[ILUG] network card installation help needed

[Dave Airlie]

> The annoying thing about linux is that you only ever seem to have to
> do this once. A really well designed operating system such as
> Windows allows the user constant practice at configuring hardware
> and software, which is an area in which I think Linux still has a 
> considerable way to catch up. It's is frustrating to find that you need
> to remember such details only to realise that you last performed this
> operation a year ago, and the cat has eaten your man pages.

<RANT>
However if you are used to a distro most of them support using the setup
tool to do this for you .. for instance with RH today, you don't need to
re-compile the kernel, you just need to run linuxconf and say I have a new
network card in the place where that stuff goes on, however I use RH but
not linuxconf so I don't know how to tell someone to do this type of stuff
in the easy fashion which appears in most dists ...

So what I am saying is basically if someone asks a question on this list
most of the answer will look sickening to a windows type user and they'll
go uggh way too hard, whereas the method given is the old type slackware
hack method as opposed to the newbie yast/linuxconf/whatever solution of
today ... 

/me prefers old Slackware solutions usually :-)

</RANT>

Dave.