Re: What is the Mac equivalent to device driver reinstall?

"James Davis" <mcleanzep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a technical question yet I'm sure it will start some debate
> about whether the Mac does it better than Windows. I work for a
> company that sells internet access PC cards and service for them. You
> stick the card in the PCMCIA slot of a Windows notebook and you can use
> it to browse the internet wirelessly wherever we have coverage. We
> also sell some cards that are Mac compatible but only the Powerbook has
> a PC card slot, though hypothetically you could buy an external reader
> for another laptop.
>
> So when they don't work because the device drivers have conflicts you
> have to go in and "uninstall" the Windows drivers. You are not really
> uninstalling, meaning taking it off the computer to the trash, but
> rather dissociating them from the current setup. When you reboot, the
> card has no drivers associated with it so it looks for the drivers
> again and tries to get it right this time.
>
> What is the Mac equivalent when drivers have conflicts or whatever?
> How do you uninstall and reinstall, or is it not a problem on the Mac?

you don't "uninstall", you simply "update" the driver. in os9 there was
some incidences where you would need to track down a corrupt driver and
trash it first... and of course in classic you had quite a few
"programs" that had uninstallers, but for drivers in OSX, update is the
the wording you are looking for.
.

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