Where's the LHD?

[Net Llama!]

yOn Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:06:31 -0800 Jim Bonnet <jimbo at sysdump.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyway.. There are other linuxhardware databases,
> >
>
> Can you name a few?

Go to Google, and perform a search on 'linux hardware database' and you'll
find them easily.

>
> > but, heck! Isn't most
> > stuff working pretty well now on linux? The last machine I bought I
> > didn't check any databases and everything seems to work pretty darn well!
> >
>
> I don't feel like being a hardware tester anymore than you do... What I'm
> looking for is a firewire PCI I/O card. Any suggestions?

What i normalyl do when i'm considering purchasing new haredware, and want
to verify functionality under Linux is the following:
1) Check the kernel.  First grep in /usr/src/linux/Dcoumentation.  That's
a guarenteed way to know if its supported.
2) Go to groups.google.com and search the linux NG's to see what us
commoners have run into already.
3) Go to the vendor's website, and see if they offer any linux support for
that component.

If you come up dry on all 3, then you're most likely going to end up with
something that is windoze only.  BTW, i believe that IEEE1394 is still
classified as 'Experimental' when configuring a 2.4.20 kernel.  Not sure
about 2.5.x, but then again, that kernel is experimental by definition.

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