Hi! On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:54:44 +0300 (EEST) > Petri Koistinen <petri.koistinen@iki.fi> wrote: > > > I wonder if this would make the help file little bit more readable (for > > beginers). > > let's not make it nearly as bad by being overly general or too specific. Would this be acceptable compromise? Petri --- linux-2.5/drivers/net/Kconfig.orig 2003-09-30 20:18:52.000000000 +0300 +++ linux-2.5/drivers/net/Kconfig 2003-09-30 20:36:27.000000000 +0300 @@ -8,32 +8,18 @@ bool "Network device support" ---help--- You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to - any other computer at all or if all your connections will be over a - telephone line with a modem either via UUCP (UUCP is a protocol to - forward mail and news between unix hosts over telephone lines; read - the UUCP-HOWTO, available from - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>) or dialing up a shell - account or a BBS, even using term (term is a program which gives you - almost full Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up - shell account on some Internet connected Unix computer. Read - <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>). + any other computer at all. You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that - you want to use under Linux (make sure you know its name because you - will be asked for it and read the Ethernet-HOWTO (especially if you - plan to use more than one network card under Linux)) or if you want - to use SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol is the protocol used to - send Internet traffic over telephone lines or null modem cables) or - CSLIP (compressed SLIP) or PPP (Point to Point Protocol, a better - and newer replacement for SLIP) or PLIP (Parallel Line Internet - Protocol is mainly used to create a mini network by connecting the - parallel ports of two local machines) or AX.25/KISS (protocol for - sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links). - - Make sure to read the NET-3-HOWTO. Eventually, you will have to read - Olaf Kirch's excellent and free book "Network Administrator's - Guide", to be found in <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. If - unsure, say Y. + you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over + telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting + two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as + AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. + + See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and + Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. + + If unsure, say Y. if NETDEVICES source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
