On 2006 October 13 01:48, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 01:02, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > don't have a website to make them available on. "As is, where is" 8^). > > As Anne would say: "Why not put it on the wiki?" > > The text is very clear as is and could help those with a similar problem.
Yeah, I guess I should. I've been avoiding learning the Wiki editing process (too many other projects on the go), but I'll try to get to it. Personally, I find that most lists of hardware that works with Linux or with distro X or kernel Y are so sparsely maintained that they're mostly useless. There are a few exceptions, like the list of scanners supported by Sane. But I see for example under firewire hardware in the Mandriva wiki that only one PCI card is listed. I'm sure there are many more that are actually supported (supposedly any OHCI compliant card is supported), but no one bothers to enter them. Linux has come so far in terms of hardware support, that I think lists of hardware that's known to not work with Linux would be much more useful. But the other parts of what I wrote, like the packages that need to be recompiled and/or have newer rpms made available, and the hiccup with eth1394 are certainly worth having in there. Ron -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
