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
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