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 http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
