Why I think FC3 sucks!
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Jan 28 04:04:03 UTC 2005
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:50PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> > > > - Some drivers are intentionally deleted because "nobody has this
> > > > hardware any longer".
> > >Examples please ?
> > ISA ethernet versions
>
> Ah yes, that got fixed a few updates back.
>
> >and I did have a problem with pcnet_cs (I believe)
> > not being configurable with the tools to setup networks.
>
> the driver should have been there since.. well, almost forever.
> I don't have access to CVS prior to 09-Sep-04 handy right now, but
> it's definitly been in FC3 since then.
>
> I'd love for ISA crap to just go away forever, but every time
> we make noises even suggesting it, we get comments from lots
> of people about how useful it is for them to have them present
> in the Fedora kernels. Maybe one day we can farm out all the
> ancient junk to a kernel-oldjunk rpm in fedora-extras 8-)
>
> Dave
>
The configuration of the cards that used pcnet_cs was the toughest part.
I believe I had to load the module in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and was
dependent on the pcmcia file that was before the permissions of the file
were set from 755 to 644. I had to carry the file from release to
release. The GUI tools were pretty useless to get the NICs configured.
I might pull out the cards from storage and attempt to put them back
in service again.
I like the proposed title for the rpm. Would this include ntfs support?
I'm sure that some features needed for extreme legacy hardware would
have to be put aside in such a scheme of a legacy kernel rpm. The kernel
already outgrew the 1.44 floppy, we don't need it to be the size of a
normal CD.
Jim
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