Asking a freetard for help when your hardware fails under linux, rather than stabilize the API/ABI 's in their kernel, they’ll just say it WorksForMe if however the freetard’s feeling generous with his/her wisdom they’ll probably tell you to use LinuxFriendlyHardware™, which still doesn’t work.
typical zealot response-> micro$oft has a monopoly because windows comes shipped with the hardware.
buy a Dell with ubuntu preloaded (DellBuntu™?), run the updates, and surprise, surprise your Ethernet is dead
seriously wtf, Ethernet is critical it’s a good thing YouDontNeedThat anyway.
LinuxFriendlyHardware™ is a myth, an excuse to troll hardware companies that try and support their OS. It’s also a great reason to poorly reverse engineer nvidia’s driver with a solution written entirely in LongPHPCodez actually thats not really fair, that driver isn’t ready yet, THE DRIVER IS JustAroundTheCorner.
if you cant get any LinuxFriendlyHardware™ for your render station(YearOfTheRenderStation™) it doesn’t matter, linux doesn’t need hardware LinuxIsPerfect.
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Well, you really don’t need an Ethernet connection.
Any decent hardware still has an RS-232 port. What you need to do is to cross-wire pins two and three (Rx and Tx), through-wire pin 7 (ground), and you’re away.
You might also need to solder a loopback on pins four and five (CTS and RTS).
Mind you, that’s just if you want an asynchronous null modem. You want synchronous? You need to fiddle with … er, well, I’ve forgotten those. RTFM.
Naturally, you need an RS-232 host at the other end. I suggest an IBM System/1: the configuration is horrendous, but it’s designed in, and IBMIsYourFriend™. Make sure the interface runs at 1200 baud: most Linux systems are quite picky about things like that.
Then all you have to do is to figure out how to apt-get the zillions of important shared libraries to the System/1, and feed them, very carefully, down the RS-232 link.
At this point I find it helpful to sit in a big leather chair, stroking a white persian cat, and murmur “We don’t tolerate failure.”
Well, Blofeld died, anyway. I recommend it for the pointless therapeutic value.
RS-232 port? thanks, someone needs to go tell the broken ethernet this solution exists, freetards love to UseEsotericWorkarounds™
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