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to: Geo.
from: Adam
date: 2007-03-01 19:41:20
subject: Re: Eth devices & mandriva - An aide memoire

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo. wrote:
> "Ad"  wrote in message
> news:45e57402$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I had a devil of a time on windows a while back with basically the
>> same thing i.e. it would not let me (re)create an eth0 i.e. it kept
>> creating
>> "Local Area Connection 2", 3, 4 etc & no way to get
back to just
>> "Local Area Connection".
>>
>> I can't remember what the fix was but it involved even more digging &
>> tweaking & what have you.
>
> it's one place in the registry (one entry) that you delete and then
> reboot and it's gone. You had 4 places to kill it off in linux. That's
> makes linux 300% more difficult .
>
> Geo.



But at least there was logic I could follow rather than simply a structure.

Adam

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