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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
@glasnost: For future reference, always trust the original thread and bundled directions over *anything* else. (In USBNet's case, that means the bundled doc, since there's no doc in the thread, by design).
Unmaintained/old/incompatible third-party documentation is a recipe for disaster.
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I always try to trust the documentation. But in this case, the documentation sent me to a post that - while delightfully snarky - failed to impart a few steps in the process that were essential AND added a little bit of confusion. Moreover, some of these release threads have posts going back several years - and what worked 4 years ago may not work today, putting a lot of thread information into the category of 'unmaintained third-party documentation.'
That said, your documentation looked perfect from a linux shell - if I had my project box up and running with me, I wouldn't have had an issue. I've been maintaining a cutting edge Gentoo/Funtoo build for years. Unfortunately, I just have this work laptop and it's win10 exclusive :-(
So, for me, the solution was to go to the wiki and hope that whoever wrote it was working on the latest info. In this case - they were! And I subsequently tried to clarify the wiki further on this point (yay for community involvement!)
I ~love~ and ~greatly appreciate~ your work & I think it speaks volumes about the community that several old hands tried to help me mitigate a potential PEBKAC.