[TriLUG] Device detection

[Jeff Tickle]

Don't install Windows :-P

Nah, it sounds like your way is the best.  In fact, when I was laptop
shopping, I put a Knoppix CD into a few of the laptops that interested
me at Best Buy just to see how it would run.  The sales guy walked by a
few times but never said the first thing.

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:32, Ed Anderson wrote:
> In linux, I'm used to being able to use /proc/pci to figure out what
> hardware I have in an box.
> However, I always run into trouble when setting up Windows on a box
> that I don't know what devices are installed.  I usually just pop in a
> gentoo or knoppix cd and let the kernel tell me what hardware it has. 
> There must be a better way to figure out what drivers I need though,
> when windows doesn't detect it for me.  Any ideas?
> -- 
> Ed Anderson
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Jeff Tickle

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Probably some other stuff, too!

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