Without the drivers, huh…

alternateorg on September 6, 2001


And, if you’re frequently adding new peripherals to your system, you should be pleasantly surprised at how simple Windows XP makes it. In fact, a couple of weeks ago we popped in a wireless LAN card without the drivers. Within 60 seconds, we accessed a wireless LAN that our systems had never seen before. Very impressive.

Or you could use a system that doesn’t involve drivers and has wireless LAN support built into the system because the people who made the system also made the LAN card. Yawn. I’m not even linking to the article, because that’s about all the substance it has to it. Very terrible for ZDNet just to say ‘Buy XP because we say so. We’re not giving you any real reasons other than that.’

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6 Replies to “Without the drivers, huh…”

  1. SU September 6, 2001 at 5:26 pm

    MacOS 9 and MacOSX have drivers… They’re called “extensions” in 9 and your video card wouldn’t work without them. Plug a USB card reader (for SmartMedia or Compact Flash) into a computer running MacOS 9 and it will ask you if you’d like to search the internet for the appropriate drivers.

  3. 808 September 7, 2001 at 9:06 am

    This is true in windows as well.

  4. SU September 6, 2001 at 5:26 pm

    MacOS 9 and MacOSX have drivers… They’re called “extensions” in 9 and your video card wouldn’t work without them. Plug a USB card reader (for SmartMedia or Compact Flash) into a computer running MacOS 9 and it will ask you if you’d like to search the internet for the appropriate drivers.

  6. 808 September 7, 2001 at 9:06 am

    This is true in windows as well.

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