[Knitebane]

Really the guy needed to take a 7 year old version of Linux and see how well it handled installing on this system, if 7 year old generic Linux network drivers handled this card then he has a point (though a small one since driver disks are actually pretty standard issue in spite of what he says).

I've actually done this recently...by accident.

I had a newly built system that I accidentally booted up with an antique Knoppix LiveCD from 2002.

It saw my new Lexmark Laser printer, the Intel gigabit network card and the nVidia video card just fine.

[boogerbear]

Did you have the same network this guy had? The guy needed to do an apples to apples test. None of his criticism means anything without proof that 7 year old Linux handled installing on that machine better.