[GRLUG] Self introduction and plea

[Steve Romanow]

George (Skip) VerDuin wrote:
> May I look fwd to meeting you in a couple days Steve?
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 08:32 -0500, Steve Romanow wrote:
>   
>>> SNIP<<
>>>       
>> There is nothing intrinsically about linux that ties it to hardware. I 
>> had a gentoo webserver install that I physically moved must've been 5 
>> times, even changed arch from intel to amd. I just had to have the 
>> modules for the chipset and drive controllers available. You do not want 
>> to do disk io with the settings for your old motherboard. do an lspci 
>> and make sure that the modules selected are appropriate for your new 
>> hardware.
>>     
> lspci is new to me, I'm liking what I see.  Well now -- here may be the
> crux of my problem(?): while the lspci [with various parm sets] all
> looks "normal" to me I wonder if I would *recognize* if it was in fact
> demonstrating a flaw...
>
> There is no substitute for experience -- I am limited at this depth:-(
>
>   
>>> SNIP<<
>>>       
>> Cool, neat experience. Did you see we are getting together this Thursday 
>> in Caledonia?
>>     
> The map looks straight forward enough...
>
>   
>> Steve
>>     
>
>
> Warmest regards from here,
> Skip
>
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Along with lspci, there are lsusb, and lsmod that are helpful for the 
same reason. Add a -v option and they giver verbose output.