On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:21 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years
> > that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box
> > on any old arb Linux system.
>
> When I bought my Asus P5B-E board last year, the drivers for the
> Attansic L1 gigabit NIC hadn't made it into the kernel and no live CD
> would enable it. I ended up putting a spare PCI NIC in to install
> Gentoo, then patching the kernel to enable the on-board one.
>
> It appeared in the next kernel release, so is not problem now, but
> that was less than a year ago.
Something similar to that I was referring myself: less than a year ago
some cheap realtek model was not kernel supported. I was lucky though:
only after 2 weeks it got in to the mm kernel(or was it git?)
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