Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote:
>
>
>> For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci,
>> and a variety of other utilities and save the results.
>>
>
> Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how
> long can a life be?
>
>

Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown.  I don't think the 
drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it.  I have had to 
add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, it 
should be the same.

I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best way 
to get the right drivers.  That is providing the hardware works when 
that is done.

Dale

:-)  :-)