[buug] Windows linux internet sharing
sah at borf.com
sah at borf.com
Tue Nov 21 07:42:30 PST 2000
For the pedantic among us ...
s/had/shipped with a kernel containing/
> I thought redhat 7 had usb support. Am I mistaken?
Sam
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Sam Hopkins
sah at borf.com
"... let us tame the savageness of man, and make
gentle the life of this world."
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Rick Moen wrote:
> begin sah at borf.com quotation:
>
> > I thought redhat 7 had usb support. Am I mistaken?
>
> USB is, of course, a matter of one's kernel, not (particularly) one's
> distribution. The Linux kernel's USB drivers have been developed in the
> 2.3 beta kernels, and have been backported to the latter 2.2 stable
> kernels: http://www.linux-usb.org/
>
> Some distribution packagers elect to include beta drivers in the
> prepackaged kernels their installers use. Red Hat Software may do that:
> I don't really do Red Hat 7, having a fondness for binary compatibility.
>
> In any event, one is _in no way_ limited to the driver support in one's
> distribution's default kernel. That's the sort of thing gcc is there
> for.
>
> --
> Cheers, "Reality is not optional."
> Rick Moen -- Thomas Sowell
> rick at linuxmafia.com
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