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