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- From: dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.171828.14323@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 22:18:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.165319.14767@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <714317431.111@eyrie.img.com.au>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <714317431.111@eyrie.img.com.au> athos@eyrie.img.com.au (David Burren) writes:
- >I also have an Elite16 Combo (it's the 8013E with AUI, BNC, & UTP) and
- >see exactly the same symptoms. No ideas yet, just another "me too!"...
- >
- >This is in a system that's evolved from a 16 MHz 386SX through a 20 MHz
- >386DX to a 40 MHz 386DX. Using a mono display, A1540, floppy, & serial.
- >The we device has never so far been detected on warm-boot.
-
- Every solution I've gotten so far is to "recompile the kernel." I
- really wonder why Unix *still* doesn't have installable device drivers.
- The Novell Netware Requester for OS/2 is updated by just copying over
- the new device drivers - there's even a PM program that'll do it for
- you. DOS has had installable device drivers (device=) since 2.0. Is
- there a fundamental reason why Unix hasn't/will not support this?
-