[lug] Install on Compaq 1215US

Jeff Howell howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com
Fri Jul 27 13:33:04 MDT 2001


lspci may give you some insight for the actual chipset. After that is 
identified, a search on RedHat's support pages or google.com will 
probably give you the module you need to run it.

Keith.Herold wrote:

> So I just bought a new presario, and I am trying to get RH7.1 installed.
> Once I discovered that the USB controller doesn't play nice, I installed
> using nousb, and added the switch to lilo.conf. Sound card works, but the
> built-in NIC doesn't.  There don't seem to be any compatible drivers by the
> name of "Compaq minipc 10/100 NIC" :) and I can't figure out what the
> chipset is on the card.  Are there any diagnostic tools that might be able
> to probe that port even though the system doesn't see it as a network
> adapter?  Even for windows?  I found some software, but to use the network
> diag you have to buy it, and I don't want to pay for something I will only
> use once.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> --Keith
> 
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  Jeff Howell
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