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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot
- Message-ID: <14225@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 06:15:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.165319.14767@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <714317431.111@eyrie.img.com.au> <1992Aug21.171828.14323@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- >Every solution I've gotten so far is to "recompile the kernel." I
- >really wonder why Unix *still* doesn't have installable device drivers.
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- Some versions of UNIX *do* have them. Others don't; BSD is one that, at
- present, doesn't. (Some OSes that are, in part, derived from BSD do.)
-
- >Is there a fundamental reason why Unix hasn't/will not support this?
-
- Given that some versions of UNIX *do* support it, the answer is
- obviously, "no, there's no such fundamental reason".
-