[Coco] Linux box needs ethernet connection to router/web/LAN

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Apr 24 15:43:10 EDT 2007


On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:30:00PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 07:30 AM 4/24/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >>First off Roger, Red Hat 9 is now very very old & gray, and has 
> >>long since used up its allotted social security account.  Its an 
> >>orphan, with no security updates for several years now.
> 
> I knew it was outdated, but not obsolete because I'm getting 
> development use out of it for some of my software and web 
> scripts.  That's about all I want Linux for right now.  I'm a Windows 
> user for everyday life and 99% of my programming.

If your network card isn't working, it is probably because it wasn't
supported by the Linux kernel when RH9 was released four (!) years ago.
If you want to use Linux on that hardware you had best start with a
newer distro.

John
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