📚 CONFIG_ARCNET
💡 Newskategorie: Linux Tipps
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Today i upgraded my kernel. While having a glance on some options in menuconfig before building, i stumbled upon this help text for the arcnet module:
"If you have a network card of this type, say Y and check out the (arguably) beautiful poetry in <file:Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt>."
So i did check it out:
" Since no one seems to listen to me otherwise, perhaps a poem will get your attention: This driver's getting fat and beefy, But my cat is still named Fifi.
Hmm, I think I'm allowed to call that a poem, even though it's only two lines. Hey, I'm in Computer Science, not English. Give me a break.
The point is: I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to hear from you if you test this and get it working. Or if you don't. Or anything.
ARCnet 0.32 ALPHA first made it into the Linux kernel 1.1.80 - this was nice, but after that even FEWER people started writing to me because they didn't even have to install the patch. <sigh>
Come on, be a sport! Send me a success report!
(hey, that was even better than my original poem... this is getting bad!)
WARNING:
If you don't e-mail me about your success/failure soon, I may be forced to start SINGING. And we don't want that, do we?
(You know, it might be argued that I'm pushing this point a little too much. If you think so, why not flame me in a quick little e-mail? Please also include the type of card(s) you're using, software, size of network, and whether it's working or not.)"
[Instructions...]
"If you don't understand that, you probably don't want to know anyway. E-mail me about your problem.
I want to send money: what now?
Go take a nap or something. You'll feel better in the morning."
Thus i had some funny stuff to read today.
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