[wellylug] Aims or Objectives > Back to PCI Modems

[Jamie Dobbs]

> not wanting to turn this political...
>
> Thats a Mandrake Issue, not a Linux issue though.
> You could take the more cautious approach and have your default kernel
> back a 2.2 :)

But Mandrake is a _version_ of Linux therefore it is a Linux issue in my
view.

> I agree with you there, or at least have some form of backwards
> compatibility with kernel modules for modems and things they know may
> not work with a kernel change.
>
> I have a conextant modem, and I got the free drivers for it, and they
> compiled against the 2.6 kernel fine, but I am not sure who they do it,
> but they say it's not kernel specific - but I get the debian package,
> and it wont compile at all against the 2.6 only the 2.4 -- strange.

This is a failing of Linux in my view, without some consistancy between
versions the future (to me at least) doesn't look very promising.
Why should I have to go out and spend money on yet another piece of
hardware simply because the version of Linux I choose to use doesn't want
to play ball with it at the moment?