Why I think FC3 sucks!

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Jan 28 04:04:03 UTC 2005


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:50PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  
>  > > > - Some drivers are intentionally deleted because "nobody has this 
>  > > > hardware any longer".
>  > >Examples please ?
>  > ISA ethernet versions
> 
> Ah yes, that got fixed a few updates back.
> 
>  >and I did have a problem with pcnet_cs (I believe) 
>  > not being configurable with the tools to setup networks.
> 
> the driver should have been there since.. well, almost forever.
> I don't have access to CVS prior to 09-Sep-04 handy right now, but
> it's definitly been in FC3 since then.
> 
> I'd love for ISA crap to just go away forever, but every time
> we make noises even suggesting it, we get comments from lots
> of people about how useful it is for them to have them present
> in the Fedora kernels. Maybe one day we can farm out all the
> ancient junk to a kernel-oldjunk rpm in fedora-extras 8-)
> 
> 		Dave
> 

The configuration of the cards that used pcnet_cs was the toughest part. 
I believe I had to load the module in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and was 
dependent on the pcmcia file that was before the permissions of the file 
were set from 755 to 644. I had to carry the file from release to 
release. The GUI tools were pretty useless to get the NICs configured.
  I might pull out the cards from storage and attempt to put them back 
in service again.

I like the proposed title for the rpm. Would this include ntfs support? 
I'm sure that some features needed for extreme legacy hardware would 
have to be put aside in such a scheme of a legacy kernel rpm. The kernel 
already outgrew the 1.44 floppy, we don't need it to be the size of a 
normal CD.

Jim

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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations
of the victors.  History is written by the survivors.
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