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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot Message-ID: <14225@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 22 Aug 92 06:15:27 GMT References: <1992Aug19.165319.14767@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <714317431.111@eyrie.img.com.au> <1992Aug21.171828.14323@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com >Every solution I've gotten so far is to "recompile the kernel." I >really wonder why Unix *still* doesn't have installable device drivers. Some versions of UNIX *do* have them. Others don't; BSD is one that, at present, doesn't. (Some OSes that are, in part, derived from BSD do.) >Is there a fundamental reason why Unix hasn't/will not support this? Given that some versions of UNIX *do* support it, the answer is obviously, "no, there's no such fundamental reason".