On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:28 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote: <snip> > The wiki has a hardware database which is designed to help out with > things like this, although your particular PCI device doesn't appear to > be in there already. The smartlink driver covers quite a range of modems > it seems. I don't think the hardware database has been rebranded to deal > with wiki.linux.net.nz, so put up with a wlug URL for now please: > http://www.wlug.org.nz/~perry/pci/ > > If you could enter in the full PCI id of the device, and then edit the > corresponding wiki page to add some notes regarding it, such as the > device name (as returned from lspci), and the link to the driver for > ubuntu, etc. > > The pages will end up as http://wiki.linux.net.nz/pci/xxxx:yyyyy where > xxxx:yyyy is the pci id... For a slightly easier way of getting to these pages, assuming your laptop at least has network support you can use the WLUG Hardware Discovery Script which comes conveniently packaged for Ubuntu. Grab it from http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/debian/wlug-pci_1.0-1_i386.deb After installing kill the panel (or just logout/login) and then look for the "WLUG Hardware Discovery Script" under the Applications -> System Tools menu. This will fire up the script and then open mozilla to display the results for each device in your system. We used this at the last InstallFest as part of our automated install script to add nice things to peoples machines and it worked really well. I'm pretty sure the above deb will work on Sarge,Warty,Hoary and Breezy but it's only been tested on Hoary. Cheers -- Matt Brown matt@mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list NZLUG@linux.net.nz http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug
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