-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 9:21 am, Warren Post wrote: > PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed > Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no > particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't > worry and just give it a go. > > The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for > the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell > you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're > right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel > onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in > Windows. > > Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC > Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. > > PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the > corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for > something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. > > The PC Chips website is <http://www.pcchips.com.tw/>. They have a page > for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The > page for my board, for example, is > <http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html>, which I mention so that you > can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your > board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo > and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. > > In case your modem is a PCTel, > <http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html> will help you get it > going in Linux. > > I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the > hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - > Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did > before wiping my Windows. > > Hope this helps.
Isn't this an "Encore Presentation" of a post you made on the weekend? <g> Just curious. For those still stuck in Windows but considering giving Mandrake Linux or any other distribution a try the easiest way to check hardware compatibility is by booting from a CD-ROM distribution such as Knoppix. Or one of the others: http://www.google.ca/search?q=live+cd&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G There's also a fairly handy tool called Belarc Advisor that will identify and display more (probably) information about your system than you care to know. It's a freebie, runs under Windows: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html It also reads all MS software installed and checks against the list for possible "Hotfixes" that may be required. May as well do two things (at least) at once, don't you think? (-; Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:43:35 up 22:05, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.11 That secret you've been guarding, isn't. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r8KeG11CaRuZZSIRAuoUAJ93tew61cAHHl+xpJVjHNHp5fw9cQCfWgF/ 7qYg4n3YaZrNIK7hL4Qx1lk= =5sch -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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