Re: [NTLK] D-Link DWL-650 doesn't work

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 16:09:46 EDT


On 01/10/02 14:54, "David C. Myers" <myers_at_aedifice.net> wrote:

>> You're maybe missing a package, or you didn't install the whole Newton
>> Internet Enabler packages and the needed drivers all on the same store.
>
> As luck would have it, they actually are all on the same store. Is this
> absolutely necessary, or sort of urban folklore?

It's not a urban folklore. When you restart your Newton, it goes from the
internal store and alphabetically loads the packages there. Then, if there
are any external store (like a PCMCIA flash RAM card), it goes on and
activates the packages on that store. It's not hard to imagine that if
you're not careful, you can load a package depending on another one that
hasn't been loaded yet. Even if that package is loaded later, the first one
won't be able to recover from this situation and won't simply work.

-Laurent.

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