On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Peter Hardy wrote:
The only problem with these "US based" hardware sites.. is that often the
hardware is
A) Not available in Australia
or B) is available, but rebadged as something else..
oe C) really hard to find someone who sells it..
I really want to kick-start some Australian Linux hardware testing.. For
products available in Australia..
Anthony
> I was speaking to somebody at the meeting last night (I'm sorry, I've
> forgotten your name...), who asked me about lists of Linux-compatible
> hardware. I referred them to http://linux.com/hardware, but there's lots of
> other good ones, depending on what you're looking for.
> http://www.linux-usb.org has a great list of working devices, and lots of
> other USB resources. For printers, http://www.linuxprinting.org does much
> the same job, with compatible printers, HOWTOs, and links to the drivers for
> Ghostscript, GIMP, etc. The SANE web-site (http://www.mostang.com/sane/)
> lists supported scanners. For soundcards, the kernel-supported cards are
> listed at http://www.linux.org.uk/OSS/, or look at ALSA
> (http://www.alsa-project.org).
> This is the sort of stuff that we need a SLUG FAQ page for. This isn't an
> exhaustive list, I'm sure somebody else has something else to add. But I
> think it covers what I was asked last night.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter, who longs for the day when buying a Linux peripheral
> doesn't have to involve a week of disappointing research.
>
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