<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ed Wilts</b> <<a href="mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org">ewilts@ewilts.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:18:39AM -0600, Raymond Norton wrote:<br>><br>> I have a used Dell laptop that must have been modified after it was<br>> shipped because I cannot find the proper windows driver for it. I booted
<br>> it with Knoppix, which finds and brings up the nic. Where can I look in<br>> Knoppix to see what driver it used, so I can get a clue what windows<br>> driver to look for?<br><br>Dell is actually pretty good about putting information on its support
<br>web site. Go to <a href="http://support.dell.com">http://support.dell.com</a> and enter your service tag.<br>You can then view the detailed information on what the system originally<br>shipped with and also gives you some tools to generate the current
<br>configuration. Given the service tag number, you can also download the<br>drivers for it. I don't believe that the system needs to be under any<br>sort of warranty for this.<br><br>If you don't know the service tag, you can get this from Knoppix if you
<br>install something like lshw which reports this as the serial number.</blockquote><div><br><br>Service tag is also in the BIOS.<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.../Ed<br><br>--<br>Ed Wilts, RHCE<br>Mounds View, MN, USA<br>mailto:<a href="mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org">ewilts@ewilts.org</a><br>Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program<br><br>_______________________________________________
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