On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote: > My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. > > I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the > specification of which looks good. > > At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, > please. > > Does Mandrake "find" the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this > motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know > what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. > > Many thanks > > Keith
So long as you have the 'harddrake' service enabled you should be able to just swap motherboards and Mandrake will auto detect the new hardware and configure itself accordingly. The only exception would be if you changed video cards at the same time when you would have to run XFdrake after it booted. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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