01-19-2016, 05:07 AM
Hello!
What you did was to install an updated kernel version, one that includes drivers for the NIC you were having issues with. With an exception here and there, most device drivers are included inside the kernel. That's one reason kernels are rather large in size.
No, it's more complicated than just that. The kernel handles so much more than just networking. It handles all the other drivers your PC needs, for starters.
Windows is also built around a kernel. People just don't mention it a lot, that's all. Many device drivers are not a part of the Windows kernel, which is why you seem to need someone else's driver for almost every device you install under Windows.
For that particular PC, yes, so it'd be a good idea to keep those files handy.
You may also experience this in other Linux flavors you check out. Some flavors of Linux use the stock Ubuntu kernels. Others, such as LL, create their own unique ones.
What the kernel is, how it works, and its importance is good knowledge to pick up for ANYONE who uses Linux regularly, because if something were to happen to mess those files up, it could render your system unbootable...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
(01-08-2016, 11:41 AM)Dyslexic1 link Wrote: Thanks you very much. Now I can play and see how fast computer & LL is.
So what were the two file s what did they do to Nic onboard card?
What you did was to install an updated kernel version, one that includes drivers for the NIC you were having issues with. With an exception here and there, most device drivers are included inside the kernel. That's one reason kernels are rather large in size.
(01-08-2016, 11:41 AM)Dyslexic1 link Wrote: Was one a files a driver and other telling Nic to use this new driver?
No, it's more complicated than just that. The kernel handles so much more than just networking. It handles all the other drivers your PC needs, for starters.
Windows is also built around a kernel. People just don't mention it a lot, that's all. Many device drivers are not a part of the Windows kernel, which is why you seem to need someone else's driver for almost every device you install under Windows.
(01-08-2016, 11:41 AM)Dyslexic1 link Wrote: Will I have do this each time I load new version of LL 2.6 ?
For that particular PC, yes, so it'd be a good idea to keep those files handy.
You may also experience this in other Linux flavors you check out. Some flavors of Linux use the stock Ubuntu kernels. Others, such as LL, create their own unique ones.
What the kernel is, how it works, and its importance is good knowledge to pick up for ANYONE who uses Linux regularly, because if something were to happen to mess those files up, it could render your system unbootable...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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