> Just wanted to report that I successfully installed a pci 32-bit
> firewire adapter (can't remember what brand) in my ultra sparcstation 30
> and using the latest debian 2.4.19 kernel binary it worked beautifully. 
> I use it to backup my server to removable harddrives.  So many things
> like sound cards, video cards (those that are supported by X11 anyway),
> network adapters, and i/o cards seem to work, provided they have a
> working driver in the kernel source tree.

I have had good success with pci cards in non x86 machines as well (ppc
and parisc in my case). Occasionally you will run across one that the
kernel code can't handle different endianness, but that seems to be
rare.

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