[wellylug] Aims or Objectives > Back to PCI Modems

[Damon Lynch]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 15:40, Brenda O'Hagan wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:31, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > The problem is not with Mandrake, it is with your modem manufacturer not
> > being on-the-ball enough to have updated their drivers to support the 2.6
> > kernel, which has been out in testing form for at least a year now.
> 
> it's not exclusively a linux problem either.
> when new version of windows or MacOs or any other OS appears, it takes 
> sometime before some manufacturers release update drivers.

If they come out at all.  I remember a large company took ages to
release a windows 2000 driver for a range of its scanners, and when they
finally did release it, it would often cause a kernel level crash in
windows 2000, causing the machine to reboot.  Maybe Jamie was just plain
lucky not to experience problems like this with proprietary software.

> 
> Mandrake 10.0 was only offically released last week. Best advice might be to 
> stick with 9.2 for a few more weeks.

Or join Mandrake Club.  There are proprietary drivers there, where they
belong.

Damon