🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:19:53 -0600
DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote:

> In message <20080706192330.1f7affde@realh.co.uk> Tony Houghton
> <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >It doesn't matter if the LiveCD's drivers are outdated as long as
> >they work well enough to download what you need for Windows. 
> 
> It doesn't really hurt anything to run outdated Windows drivers
> either, as long as they work out of the box well enough to get you
> online long enough to download updated drivers.

As long as they get properly replaced by the updated ones, but again,
that's something that doesn't usually cause problems these days. It was
more back in the days of Windows 98 when if anything could go wrong when
installing drivers it invariably would. I even preferred ME to 98
because of that.

> >IME network
> >driver installations for Windows tend to go fairly smoothly these
> >days, so I won't claim using Linux is easier and more reliable, but
> >it does have one advantage: you can download everything you need at
> >once, instead of having to wait for the network drivers before you
> >can go and get everything else. 
> 
> That really depends on your hardware and software combination.
> 
> I honestly can't remember the last time I had problems getting online
> on a desktop system with anything other then a Windows CD/DVD.  I
> have one motherboard that dates back a few years which doesn't have a
> driver included in XP SP1, but it's included in XP SP2 and Vista.
> 
> I also had an older laptop that actually needed drivers for the wired
> ethernet, but oddly the wireless card worked without drivers beyond
> what Windows has built-in, so it was a fairly moot point to reinstall.
> 
> One of my current systems will only work in 100Mb mode until you
> install the drivers, but again, more then sufficient.

You're probably buying posher Intel motherboards than I've been using
lately then. My experience is almost the opposite. This one, despite
having an Intel northbridge and southbridge, has an Attansic network
chip. I've never found a driver for any nForce motherboard on a Windows
CD either.

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