On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:34 +0530, Mayank wrote: > Thanks for the support. Just to state my concerns here is an e.g. I've a > Dell Server with 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller. Now upon > looking up on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl I found that it was not supported. > So if I was to look out for support for this device on a Linux kernel, then > how am I supposed to go about the problem. And like this there are several > other devices like PCI Express to PCI X Bridge, LPC bridge etc. for which I > am unable to verify availability of support. So how do I go about finding > support for these hardware components ? And yet another question would be > "Are these components really critical for normal server operations ?" > Well, At times the commertial companies for their commertial reasons don't announce support for a certain device or even an entire chipset. I had this experience with asus 945 motherboard. When I called the fokes the streight away told me "linux won't work on our boards " but I was suggested by ronny, one of our lug members to use that board and by words! it worked absolutely fine!. I needed to put one commertial driver for the high resolution display but that too was easily available. Even when that driver was not used the board worked perfectly on 3 machines (thanks ronny). This was against what the Asus guys told me. So what is the moral or the story?
> As for seeking support from third party is concerned, that won't be possible > because in that case I'd rather opt for RedHat or Suse which already provide > support for their products. Sorry to disappoint anyone if this statement did > so :) I don't think that will really disappoint any one because no one would want another distro war on the list :). happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
