[3303] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: sipb meeting confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Mon Jan 8 21:44:33 2001
Message-Id: <200101090244.VAA02132@tiki-god.mit.edu>
To: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sipb-minutes@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:33:27 EST."
<200101090233.VAA13995@ten-thousand-dollar-bill.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:44:05 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
It's confusing because I was misquoted. It should have read:
Seph built a new install disk which works but we're still having issues
with it, so we are trying to find a card that doesn't work with the
original install disk so we can test things.
>> sly: Also linux-dev, also 3Com sucks. The 3c905C seems to
>> have changed something in its firmware to cause the
>> current driver on the SIPB Linux install disk to not
>> work. Seph built a new disk, but it doesn't work;
>> we're trying to find a card, and hopefully the new
>> machine has one.
>>
>
>this confuses me. the install disk does work, the installed system
>does not work. I consider this distinction highly meaningful, as the
>latter is much simpler to kludge around.
>
>seph
