I have a hardware question.
I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 Air and have become inspired by Debian. I want to run Debian. Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster Live audio card. If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? Or do I have to wait for Potato to come out? I've spent 5-6 days attempting to find the answer to this question looking at other sources and I can't seem to answer my question alone. I know these two hardware items ARE supported in the LINUX of today but does the LINUX of today cover any of the 2.1 releases??? Thanks in advance Charlie
Re: I have a hardware question.
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:05:08PM -0600, Charlie Ebert wrote: Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster Live audio card. If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? Or do I have to wait for Potato to come out? If you install Slink you will _not_ be able to use the mentioned hardware. I don't even know about potato (aka 2.2). UDMA-66 is not supported in the standard 2.2 kernel that potato uses. I don't know if the kernel-images will be patched eventually. The same goes for SB-Live. However you can allways install from the UDMA-33 contoller patch and rebuild your kernel and then switch controller. The SB-Live software is a kernel module that you can add easely yourself. -- Regards Sven Esbjerg
Re: I have a hardware question.
[snip] I know these two hardware items ARE supported in the LINUX of today but does the LINUX of today cover any of the 2.1 releases??? The support for devices is not in Linux distributions, but in the kernel itself. Currently, the default kernel installed in slink is the 2.0.36 series, but you can download and install latest kernel without any problems (www.linuxhq.com) Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. http://arshes.dyndns.org -| If one does not work, try another :) UIN 12402354 To get my GnuPG public key, go to scorpio.dynodns.net/GnuPG scorpio.myip.org/GnuPG arshes.dyndns.org/GnuPG -
Re: I have a hardware question.
Charlie == Charlie Ebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 Air and have become inspired by Debian. I want to run Debian. Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster Live audio card. If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? Or do I have to wait for Potato to come out? I'm pretty sure that slink will not support these two. Actually, I don't thing Debian will ever support SB Live right out of the box due to the licencing of the SB Live drivers. You'll have to roll your own, which I think has been fairly successful. (People are free to Correct me if I'm wrong.) As for Ultra-66, I'm not sure if that made it into frozen. I thought that Ultra-66 is only in the 2.3+ kernels...But I don't have one, so I can't say from experience. I've spent 5-6 days attempting to find the answer to this question looking at other sources and I can't seem to answer my question alone. I know these two hardware items ARE supported in the LINUX of today but does the LINUX of today cover any of the 2.1 releases??? Thanks in advance Charlie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
