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

Snit wrote: 
"Travelinman" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
nowhere-759CCE.21304814112005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 11/14/05 8:30 PM:


In article <1132023969.536384.101870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"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?


Driver conflicts are so rare on the Mac that I can't remember seeing one
in at least 6 or 8 years. You'd have to do a pretty lousy job of writing
drivers to have to worry about it.



it certainly is not the common occurrence it is on Windows.  None come to
mind with OS X, other than some USB devices on 10.0 that were fixed in 10.2.
Even with that they only hit with rather specific combos of third party
devices and could lead to a kernel panic.


Colonel Panic? Keep your g-d filthy chicken fingers out of this thread.

...the sky is falling. 

-Snit
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