On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
I can't help you directly, but I'v a policy of staying away from
Compaq hardware. They have a NASTY habit of being non-standard
(since their very first machine, non-standard video). As a
result, they always give trouble. The latest case is for
upgrading laptop hard drives, It's not SCSI and it's NOT IDE, it
compaq-IDE folks (different pin-out)! Drives exclusively
available, from compaq, at schtup-you, prices! Then there is that
problem of the on-motherboard NIC, that no one else has drivers
for (if compaq doesn't support your OS then you're toast).
uhmmm their NIC's are either Texas Instruments ThunderLan or
(recently) Intel EEpro.. should work fine with the plain linux
drivers.
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Paul Jakma
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