[NET]: Modernize network device help text.

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index b7ad19b2542b171efc4d80274a3686e08228bc5a..6c6ce2a743f067e978277796e17df2e708e92089 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -8,32 +8,18 @@ config NETDEVICES
        bool "Network device support"
        ---help---
          You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
-         any other computer at all or if all your connections will be over a
-         telephone line with a modem either via UUCP (UUCP is a protocol to
-         forward mail and news between unix hosts over telephone lines; read
-         the UUCP-HOWTO, available from
-         <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>) or dialing up a shell
-         account or a BBS, even using term (term is a program which gives you
-         almost full Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up
-         shell account on some Internet connected Unix computer. Read
-         <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>).
+         any other computer at all.
 
          You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that
-         you want to use under Linux (make sure you know its name because you
-         will be asked for it and read the Ethernet-HOWTO (especially if you
-         plan to use more than one network card under Linux)) or if you want
-         to use SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol is the protocol used to
-         send Internet traffic over telephone lines or null modem cables) or
-         CSLIP (compressed SLIP) or PPP (Point to Point Protocol, a better
-         and newer replacement for SLIP) or PLIP (Parallel Line Internet
-         Protocol is mainly used to create a mini network by connecting the
-         parallel ports of two local machines) or AX.25/KISS (protocol for
-         sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links).
-
-         Make sure to read the NET-3-HOWTO. Eventually, you will have to read
-         Olaf Kirch's excellent and free book "Network Administrator's
-         Guide", to be found in <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. If
-         unsure, say Y.
+         you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over
+         telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting
+         two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as
+         AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links.
+
+         See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and
+         Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
+
+         If unsure, say Y.
 
 if NETDEVICES
        source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"