posted Monday, August 26, 2002 - 03:50 AM (#1363)
or How I stopped whingeing and became part of the solution ;)
Much in the manner of jon and phillip's "you sure do think a lot", "I sure do!" [goats.com] exchange I would like to open the floor to people's ideas which are great, but they know, deep down, they will never have the money to develop. This is in the vain hope that at least they'll get made by the rich and powerful lurkers around here (i'd prefer a goats fan made the money from my idea than no one - they may contribute to goats).
So my opening idea. Chuck a small eprom onto every plug in card / device. The prom has a basic driver for a couple of operating systems.
When the OS loads it can probe the device and grab the driver (which may be old but at least works) and installs.
Then has a site reference it can go to and grab a more recent version.
Wouldn't that make building a system great if the NIC was just there ready to go?
Much in the manner of jon and phillip's "you sure do think a lot", "I sure do!" [goats.com] exchange I would like to open the floor to people's ideas which are great, but they know, deep down, they will never have the money to develop. This is in the vain hope that at least they'll get made by the rich and powerful lurkers around here (i'd prefer a goats fan made the money from my idea than no one - they may contribute to goats).
So my opening idea. Chuck a small eprom onto every plug in card / device. The prom has a basic driver for a couple of operating systems.
When the OS loads it can probe the device and grab the driver (which may be old but at least works) and installs.
Then has a site reference it can go to and grab a more recent version.
Wouldn't that make building a system great if the NIC was just there ready to go?