____/ JEDIDIAH on Tuesday 15 Dec 2009 16:33 : \____
> On 2009-12-15, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 15 Dec 2009 12:51 : \____
>>
>>> Ian Hilliard pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
> [deletia]
>>>
>>> Anyway, I pack up and go home, and build a 2.6.32 kernel from my custom
>>> 2.6.31 ".config". Now I do see eth0 and the "Attansic" hardware in lspci.
>>>
>>> Then I boot to the stock Fedora kernel and still see eth0. So I have a
>>> little puzzle to play with. Perhaps the wired NIC is intermittent.
>>
>> Some months ago when I booted Mandriva on my brother's laptop it 'disabled'
>> the wireless switch (digital switch, not mechanical). It took almost an
>> hour to figure this out.
>>
>> You say Windows had the same issue. Could there be something beyond software
>> here?
>
> We get all of this nonsense and noise about problems that require in depth
> technical knowledge and perhaps a bit of voodoo and you get conditioned
> against checking for the obvious simple solution.
>
> [deletia]
It came down to a phonecall with "Windows people". They couldn't figure it out.
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