Rob Hudson wrote:

> Regarding hardware... what's the best way to check if a particular piece
> of hardware works under linux?  Sometimes I google.  I recently found
> linuxhardware.net but it didn't have much.  Any other resources?

I wrote this in response to baggab just a few days ago.

> Googling for "linux thingname" is still a good place to start.  The
> information found is useful, but the dates on the information are more
> useful.  If all the mail complaining "I can't get my thingname to
> work" are dated from 2001, that means Linux and thingname started
> talking to each other a couple of years ago.  If they're dated June,
> 2003, then it's a lot less likely.

To that advice I'll add that specific model names, e.g., PDC20270,
work better than marketing names, e.g., Promise TX-2.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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