On 1/23/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:18:39AM -0600, Raymond Norton wrote: > > > > I have a used Dell laptop that must have been modified after it was > > shipped because I cannot find the proper windows driver for it. I booted > > it with Knoppix, which finds and brings up the nic. Where can I look in > > Knoppix to see what driver it used, so I can get a clue what windows > > driver to look for? > > Dell is actually pretty good about putting information on its support > web site. Go to http://support.dell.com and enter your service tag. > You can then view the detailed information on what the system originally > shipped with and also gives you some tools to generate the current > configuration. Given the service tag number, you can also download the > drivers for it. I don't believe that the system needs to be under any > sort of warranty for this. > > If you don't know the service tag, you can get this from Knoppix if you > install something like lshw which reports this as the serial number. Service tag is also in the BIOS. .../Ed > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060123/20c8eccc/attachment-0001.htm