Where's the LHD?

[Jim Bonnet]

> 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.

hey, you're right! Every kernel comes with it's own hardware database!

anyway.. As a side note, and one of the things I find quite amusing.. 
When my phone rings and Joe End User is calling with problem XYZ.. If I 
don't know the answer right away I get keywords from his question, go to 
goolge, do a quick search and most of the time I can find the answer.. 
be it for linux, unix, or m$.. we get questions on all of 'em and the 
answers are there. and _BOY_ are some customers amazed at how much I 
know.. or, is that, how much google knows.. =)

the moral of the story is.. "google is your friend"

now if I can only get openserver's pcmcia subsystem to talk to my 
thinkpad... hrm.


--jim