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kmount

kmount

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Morning,

 

I'm going to Africa soon to install some donated computers in a couple of schools and community centres in your average 2003 vanilla AD / XP environment for a charity.

 

The domain/client model is all fine and working but it did dawn on me that a lack of reliable internet access is going to bite me in the bum quite quickly so I figured I'd ask the good folks on Edugeek for their advice on how to 'take' as many drivers as I can with me, or if we know of any genius ways of telepathic internet or so.

 

Of course, with the hardware already there or on a ship currently I'm not privy to what's there other than some Dell GX150 / GX210 and some RM Accelerators (since my old school donated these I know what's in them!)

 

My first 'idea' is to take a few copies of the AC97 audio driver as lets face it, loads of boards use it, but I'm more concerned initially with network cards, what's common in workstations these days, still realtek 8139's, or intel e100's?

 

Even cooler would be if I borrow a list of nics you guys are using on your WDS/FOG boxes for the many many machines people look after to try and get as broad a range of drivers covered as possible so any internet exposure there (very expensive) is as low as possible.

 

A big public thank you to Michael of Logistixonline.com too as I may end up benefitting from his update packs if I can't take a portable WSUS with me!

 

Many many thanks for anyone who can help me help make a difference.

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tmcd35

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Broadcom - especially thier NetXtreme gigabit range seem to be quite big at the moment. You never, ever go wrong with intel Pro100 or Pro1000. Realtek 8139's were big a year or two ago. I've just got a hp laptop with Yutek (I think, begins with a Y) drivers.

 

Is there not an ultimate drivers cd (actually 4 cd's if I remember rightly) out their on the interweb somewhere? I'm sure someone has compiled all this so you can build a single XP slipstreamed DVD that'd boot and install on almost any hardware without the need of additonal drivers. If I get a moment I'll google it (assuming no one beats me to the punch).

 

EDIT: almost forgot - Well done and good luck. How'd you get involved in such a cool gig. Wouldn't mind doing something like that myself one day. An old friend of mine is currently doing 2years in Namibia with the VSO :cool:

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teejay

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First off, what a fantastic thing to do!

 

NIC Drivers -

Broadcom Netxtreme I & II

Intel Pro 100 & 1Gb

Also take a good selection of Realtek/SMC/DLink

 

Others -

The Intel/AMD/NVidia/SIS/VIA motherboard chipset drivers

NVidia/ATI/Intel/Matrox graphics drivers

 

Sound is more difficult as these will prob be 3-5 yr old machines, so a selection of crystal, realtek, creative labs drivers may help

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tmcd35

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News | DriverPacks.net

 

We created a universal win xp install disk with the driver packs from here, have not come across a machine that does not pick up a driver from it so far.

 

Knew someone here would beat me to it. I'll file this away for future reference, again ;)

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kmount

kmount

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Wow, thank you so much everyone.

 

Lots of stuff to download + take with me!

 

No memory sticks though; too expensive will stick to cds!

 

Thanks again everyone, have PM'd James there for a copy of his CD too.

 

Cheers,

 

Kim.

 

Oh, how I got involved! ... A teacher from my old school formed the charity as he's from Cameroon originally and wanted to give back and help make a difference, and he asked my (at the time) team for any surplus equipment and skills and it's now coming to fruition and I fly out at the start of December to take stock of the situation and put in a network or two depending upon the time available to try and make a difference.

 

Once again thanks everyone.

 

Kim.

mac_shinobi

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No memory sticks though; too expensive will stick to cds!

 

Thanks again everyone, have PM'd James there for a copy of his CD too.

 

Cheers,

 

Kim.

 

Kim.

 

 

dabs.com - Best Value 8GB USB Memory Stick (INS-USB-CNM-8GB)

 

Am sure Simon on CPLTD might be able to do someit better value wise per gigabyte ?

 

that or an external hard drive - you would only need an 60 or 80 gb usb drive again CPLTD

 

They dont have a dvd drive or you couldn't take an external usb dvd drive and hook that up to the server to copy the stuff across into a network share and then assuming you have at least the network card driver on each computer installed you could get the rest of the drivers from the network share.

 

Would be easier to use dvds instead of cd's - less discs

 

Just a thought

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garethEds

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Oh, how I got involved! ... A teacher from my old school formed the charity as he's from Cameroon originally and wanted to give back and help make a difference, and he asked my (at the time) team for any surplus equipment and skills and it's now coming to fruition and I fly out at the start of December to take stock of the situation and put in a network or two depending upon the time available to try and make a difference.

 

Once again thanks everyone.

 

Kim.

 

Hi Kim,

 

Do you want some machines to take? I'm not sure how you are getting there but I have some machines and 15" TFTs you can have.

 

Gareth

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mac_shinobi

mac_shinobi

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Hi Kim,

 

Do you want some machines to take? I'm not sure how you are getting there but I have some machines and 15" TFTs you can have.

 

Gareth

 

That or kim might have the info of the charity who you can donate those machines and screens to :D

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garethEds

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dabs.com - Best Value 8GB USB Memory Stick (INS-USB-CNM-8GB)

 

Am sure Simon on CPLTD might be able to do someit better value wise per gigabyte ?

 

that or an external hard drive - you would only need an 60 or 80 gb usb drive again CPLTD

 

They dont have a dvd drive or you couldn't take an external usb dvd drive and hook that up to the server to copy the stuff across into a network share and then assuming you have at least the network card driver on each computer installed you could get the rest of the drivers from the network share.

 

Would be easier to use dvds instead of cd's - less discs

 

Just a thought

 

It's a real shame that one of the companies on here couldn't sponsor a memory stick for Kim especially as it is a good cause.

 

GJE

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mac_shinobi

mac_shinobi

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It's a real shame that one of the companies on here couldn't sponsor a memory stick for Kim especially as it is a good cause.

 

GJE

 

quick pm to Simon or someone @ cpltd or one of the other edugeek sponsors should do the trick or even an external hdd possibly ( doesnt have to be large capacity )

 

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Have sent Simon ( CPLTD ) a pm along with the link for this thread.

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kmount

kmount

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Hi Kim,

 

Do you want some machines to take? I'm not sure how you are getting there but I have some machines and 15" TFTs you can have.

 

Gareth

 

Gareth,

 

You continue to be a cracking bloke; I shall ask the chap on this end as I do suspect this to be a brilliant idea & very very kind of you. Can you pm me numbers and I'll return with details with the charity etc as I'm not back of the car boot-ing them ;)

 

Thanks again everyone, you have all been most kind and I of course will take many pictures! (Finally, a use for a blog!)

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GrumbleDook

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I also have a number of 1GB and 2GB sticks you can take with you ... pretty sure I still have a good handful of them around ... and not the versions that had a 50% failure rate either ;)
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teejay

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I have some 250Gb external HDD's you can have if they would be of use. Bit big but the are nice robust Seagate ones. Can let you have up to 4 if you want.
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garethEds

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will sort out a 16GB USB Stick tomorrow for you fella courtesy of CP ;)

 

@Kim: Well as I suggested it - I'll also put my money where my mouth is and I'll order one for you as well. When are you going? PM me with your address and I shall sort it out.

 

@CPLTD: How much are they with you?

 

Gareth

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Haptic

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@Kim: Well as I suggested it - I'll also put my money where my mouth is and I'll order one for you as well. When are you going? PM me with your address and I shall sort it out.

 

@CPLTD: How much are they with you?

 

Gareth

 

will pop a quote over to you first thing fella can you pm me so I remember bud:cool:

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kmount

kmount

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I'm absolutely touched folks.

 

Simon, always a pleasure as a reliable supplier from my past you guys have always seen me right.

 

GJE, as a fellow RM Mod back in the days again you're a superb bloke and I'm as always grateful for your time and efforts.

 

Shep, as always, a very loyal friend, even if you drive drive a mario kart like bowser :)

 

Teejay, not had that much exposure with you fella but I hope I've somehow helped you somewhere along the line as your offer has made me shiver it's truly fantastic to see people out of the woodwork to help us along.

 

This feat is by no means a one off, if we can pull this off, the idea is to have 30-60 computers in place in a 'proper' network system whilst providing the tools for local people to manage it (ala teach a man to fish rather than give him fish).

 

I'm stunned by everyone's support, I knew Edugeek was a warm community but I didn't think it could be this warm.

 

Thank you all so very much, and for every single person whose taken the time to read this, pm me, or the couple of guys posting me driver Cd's thank you all for this, we can all make a difference here and I will be sure as hell preaching the good word of EduGeeks everywhere when I tip up!

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kmount

kmount

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When are you going?

Gareth

 

hehehehe ... 4th of December!

 

Going for around 10 days in this first venture but I think ultimately it's going to take more trips but more than anything it's a case of providing the tools (and key word here is documentation) to sustain and develop their solutions for themselves.

 

The base platform is 2003 with XP Clients in a 'vanilla' AD network with bolt on's including hmailserver (ldap auth), WAMP with Moodle (ldap auth), Squirrelmail (back to the hmailserver) and plenty of nice apps like Hot Potatoes etc to help stimulate and develop their teaching resources.

 

The key here is providing an 'out of the box' solution which can be scaled, each school will have one or two servers depending upon numbers and it needs to provide things we take for granted such as secure private learning space, shared areas for the various user groups and more than anything a simple structure to make adding users and computers an easy task that anyone can do.

 

I intend on writing up about my experiences as I do genuinely believe this is something we can all do and coming together like this proves that.

 

I'm absolutely speechless (though that might be the few pints of export tonight) by the support everyone has shown and I can't thank you all enough from the bottom of my heart.

garethEds

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Hi Kim,

 

Might be worth you also downloading the Logistix Update Packs and sticking them on the DVD when you go. Maybe you should ask Michael first, but I doubt there would be a problem.

 

A DVD full open free or open source education software would be a good idea as well.

 

Open Office?

 

GJE

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