On 02/01/2008 03:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
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I wish it was usually that easy to match a file's name to a Dell
product; part of my job is installing Windows on second-hand computers,
and I've absolutely no way of telling what a file I've downloaded
drives, except my opening it up and inspecting files.
Right now I need to find (network) drivers for GC240 and GX260. I have
drivers for the GX270, they don't work on the others.
I wonder whether The Boss will allow me to install Linux instead?
FYI (and perhaps not directly related to the problem at hand, and
certainly not to the Windows issue): DELL tried to do YUM repositories
for drivers and firmware (delivered as RPM), and has developed a YUM
plugin that gets the correct software based on the HW model. They
apparently also invested effort into making the firmware on all (server?
desktops?) upgradeable from under Linux. Nice effort.
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
Hope this helps
Jan
