[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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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.
>  
> -- 
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> rick at linuxmafia.com
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