debian nic drivers

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:56 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: debian nic drivers
> 
> 
> On Tuesday April 27 2004 12:13 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> > Anyone running a debian version that has the yenta_socket
> > driver?
> 
> Any particular reason you're determined to stick with debian? 
>  This is what 
> it's like.  It's for people who want to tinker and try fixing 
> stuff and 
> writing their own drivers.
> 
> If you're more interested in RUNNING linux than in working on 
> it, you might 
> try one of the more "advanced" distributions, like SuSE, 
> Fedora, or Mandrake.
Yes, I have a particular reason: maintaining. Another reason is
bloat. Although knoppix does a pretty good job on bloat too.
I'm running on a laptop, size is important. I have nothing against 
RH or SuSE or Mandrake I have bought each of them at one time or
another and have relatively current CDs of them. Debian is plenty
advanced and once I get this NIC issue solved it will be smooth
sailing again. Unfortunately the knoppix "install" is less than 
satisfactory. Now the system won't boot. I'll be installing another
version of debian. Maybe I'll burn all seven debian cds and do a full
metal jacket debian install. Just to see how user unfriendly it
really is. I have no problem tweaking Linux. I run gentoo on my other
computer, and a stripped-down-gutted Mandrake on my firewall. I think
you'll find that "all" the distros have problems with drivers.