War Story: HP 2000 Laptop

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote

> Yep, ralink sounds right.  It's presently on 2.6.something; I'll see
> about switching to something modern-ish, and see how that turns out.

  Can the install CD give a commandline tty or a terminal?  From there
try...

lspci -v | less

  That is the standard procedure for Gentoo installs.  The output tells
you...
a) what hardware is hooked up to PCI on the machine
b) what kernel module is being used to run the hardware

lsusb -v | less

...will give similar info for USB-attached devices.

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