[lug] Install on Compaq 1215US

[John Karns]

That's a laptop?  Have you consulted the Linux laptop site?

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/


On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Keith.Herold said:

> 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.


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