Re: KDE 3.1 and Mandrake 9.1beta3

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:57, Brandon Joseph Adams wrote:
> Mandrake 9.1beta3 includes KDE 3.1. The only problem that I had when using 
> 9.1beta3 was that 5 minutes into use the ethernet drivers magically 
> disappeared from the system. I couldn't even find a copy of MAKEDEV (you 
> don't expect me to use mknod do you?) to make the devices myself. So for a 
> friendly warning, don't use 9.1beta3 with 3COM 3C905B-TX Fast Etherlink PCI 
> cards.

On Linux, network devices don't have device nodes; they just "exist" as
magic names you pass to configuration tools.  So, you can't MAKEDEV (or
mknod, for that matter) a network device.

Did the modules disappear from "lsmod"?
-- 
Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>

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