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  • Anybody ever get Winmodems to work or did they all give up on it?

    Back in the day, it was hard enough getting dialup internet working on Linux (especially before you had internet in your pocket, so you had to print out HowTos or write down a bunch of notes before you tried to do it).

    But it was downright impossible with a class of modems that was designed essentially as a softmodem, heavily reliant on closed-source firmware and drivers, making them practically impossible to work on Linux.




  • I saw earlier you mentioned it’s an Optiplex, so I’m assuming this is an onboard NIC.

    I’ve never had an onboard NIC not work out-of-the-box in Linux. Wifi, sure, but usually just certain chipsets with proprietary/closed firmware. Dell usually uses Intel NICs and they’re usually pretty solid and well supported.

    Check to make sure that the NIC is enabled in BIOS.

    If you have/had Windows on this PC, did it work there?

    Does the NIC show in lspci or ip a ?

    Try an external USB NIC. Or an internal PCIe one if you’re comfortable with that.








  • Netbox is a documentation tool. You can plug in Napalm to do some stuff but it mostly exists to catalog the intended state of the network.

    It’s a wonderfully powerful tool, and Stretch has done a great job with it…but it’s not an analysis tool, it’s documentation.

    Stretch is a pretty cool guy too. He strikes me as the kind of person that really wants to help colleagues “see the light” of the role Python and FOSS can play in network automation and maintenance. I respect that, a lot…finding enjoyment in the way you do things, and wanting to share that with other people.





  • Because people are dumb. Chalk is in milk, now, right on the label…even marketed as a feature. I’ve got two bottles of alt-milk in my fridge now, store-brand Almondmilk and Planet Oat. Both list chalk as the second ingredient.

    But if you tell that to any random schmuck they either won’t believe you or they’ll be disgusted. And then probably keep drinking it anyway.

    And that’s with the information right there on the label.

    I’m not trying to downplay the example, but there were far worse atrocities fixed by regulations.