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<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Dude, there isn't a "i586"
alone. You can see i386, i586, i686.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>i386: Generic Drivers for
any Intel based machines.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>i586: Drivers for Pentium
2 Class & Pentium Pro, Pentium MMX and the first Celeron...
(Almost any machines under 300MHZ.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>i686: All recent Pentium
3, Celeron, Pentium 4, and so.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>If you're going to compile your
own, then you need the generic i386 driver.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Regards,
</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080>Melvyn</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>P. D.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>Tony, tell me if I'm wrong at
any point. ;-)</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
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<A title=Gerdeslloyd@wmconnect.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hsflinux@lists.mbsi.ca
href="mailto:hsflinux@lists.mbsi.ca">hsflinux@lists.mbsi.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:17
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [hsflinux] x86</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>drivers refusing to
install or not fully installed. I have a i686 whereas the given drivers from
new cd that came with purchases and conexant/linux supportive sites only
specify i586. found some info on recompiling but I'm new to linux and any sort
of programming?...can you help?</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>