HARDWARE DATABASES


You might not be aware of it, but these days lots of hardware is supported in Linux. The general rule is: don´t be the first on your block to get the latest hardware, as it takes a few months for programmers to make Linux-compatible drivers, because often the manufacturers are only focused on Windows drivers.

To help you with your research on the compatibility of your hardware, here is a list of links to hardware databases.


General:

http://www.karakas-online.de/linux/links/H...nk-o-matic.html

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

http://www.linuxhardware.org/

http://hardware.linuxfaqs.de/

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn...20-008-05-NW-HW

http://linuxresource.com/Hardware/index.php

http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/

http://www.linuxhardware.net/



Distro specific:

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/hardware/ ( Mandrake )

http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=hcl ( RedHat )

http://cdb.novell.com/ ( SuSE )



Modems:

http://www.devidal.tv/~chris/winmodems/

http://www.linmodems.org



Pcmcia cards:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS



WLAN Adapters:

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz



Laptops:

http://www.linux-laptop.org/

http://www.e-laptop.com/linux/

http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html


Printers:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi


This will give you plenty of information before you spend your hard earned money on hardware.
If you know of any other good sites, send me a PM and I will add it to the list.



Bruno


-- Oct 30 2003 ( Revised Dec 13 2005 ) --