I have had the exact opposite experience with Ubuntu.  A machine I ran it on
(Live CD) recognized everything including Video and Networking.  This
machine is a pentium 450 with an ATI video card and I think a 3com network
card.  I was very surprised and happy with how it recognized the hardware.
I have in the past always had a problem with some piece of hardware (usually
a video card or network adapter).

You should be able to use debian drivers with it, though I don't know how
that works since I am familiar only with the way Redhat does things.

Gilbert

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of stu
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:25 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Arrgh!

	I have an old Compaq with a Giga-Bite GA 5-smm MB, 256 Mb ram
running an AMD
K6-2 cpu I'm fixing up as a loaner for a friend. My friend prefers Windows,
but I decided it would be a good chance to expose him to some Linux, so I
decided to load Ubuntu on it as a second OS.
	To say the least, I am very disappointed. After spending several
hours on the install, the video is stuck in 640x480, and the OS can't even
find the ethernet card. I took another hour to find the video and LAN
drivers I need to get it working properly, but the ones I've downloaded so
far don't work at all. After more fruitless searching, I'm beginning to
think the drivers I need for it simply don't exist. It's rapidly becoming an
exercise in frustration.
	Fortunately, the Ubuntu partition booted up and ran without a flaw
from the very start, with full SVGA resolution, and it logs onto my home
network in a heartbeat. MEPIS, Puppy, and DSL ran just as well on it
earlier, so that in itself tells me the hardware is working OK.
	After I finish with this last old box,  think I'll stick all my old
Windows
'98 and ME CDs in the toaster, and make expensive Christmas ornaments out of
them so I won't be tempted to try this again!
	With tongue firmly in cheek,
	Stu
	
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