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12-17-2007, 05:05 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: outside of phila. pa
Distribution: thinking about suse . Am trying to rescue some older boxes that I have
Posts: 13
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researching h ware
I'm trying to find compatible hware cards that will work with Suse . any ideas?
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12-17-2007, 05:38 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Kubuntu 12.10 (using awesome wm though)
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What sort of thing... video, io board, usb device, PCMCIA, TV card, something else?
Name what you are considering, and I am sure if someone has a positive or negative story about it they will post.
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12-17-2007, 05:57 PM
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Moderator
Registered: May 2001
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HW compatibility isn't mainly a distro but a Linux kernel thing. Besides that there's the LQ HCL http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/. |
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12-18-2007, 09:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: outside of phila. pa
Distribution: thinking about suse . Am trying to rescue some older boxes that I have
Posts: 13
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I'm looking at reusing my old cards and drives as much as possible.
I have a jazz and zip 100 scsi with adaptec interface card.
what I'd like to find is video drivers for an asus 7100 video/tuner card, and drivers for a creative sb128 sound card. I'm using a amd550 cpu. Yeah I know it's a dinosaur.
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12-18-2007, 09:35 AM
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Registered: May 2001
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Linux is quite good with ancient HW so a quick grep in the kernel source should show if these are covered by any modules.
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12-18-2007, 09:55 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: outside of phila. pa
Distribution: thinking about suse . Am trying to rescue some older boxes that I have
Posts: 13
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thanks, I'll try that.
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12-18-2007, 10:33 AM
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Registered: May 2001
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Brand names like "Zip" and "Jazz" are easy to search for and will yield few results, OTOH "Adaptec" should turn up a lot of SCSI stuff and AFAIK ASUS doesn't make chip designs itself so if you know what chipset stuff uses (GeForce2 IIRC) it would be easier to look for.
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