Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

[Amichai Rotman]

Dotan,

Download the Windows drivers from the MpBo site, extract the files, look up
the relevant strings in the .inf files and Google it for Kubuntu
compatibility....

How about starting a Linux-IL maintained HW DB - every member runs lshw on
their machine and uploads it to a site with the Distro their running...

  Amichai Rotman
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Dotan,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> wrote:
> > > You'll need to access a running
> > > machine to extract the PCI ID information, though, since Gigabyte's
> manual is
> > > not very helpful.
> >
> > Is that the chicken, or the egg?
> >
> > In other words, if I did have access to a running system, I would
> > already know if it works or not!
>
> This board surely runs Windows. You can extract the PCI ID from its "Device
> Manager", or whatever it's called there.
>
> Also, some BIOSes list PCI devices with IDs in the initial screen.
>
> baruch
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