Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
Patrick Reijnen, <patrickr@bart.nl (remove "antispam")>
v97.6, 10 December 1997

This document lists most of the hardware supported by Linux and helps
you locate any necessary drivers.

1. Introduction

NOTE: CHECK APPENDIX C ON PnP DEVICES AND ISAPNPTOOLS.

1.1. Welcome

Welcome to the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. This document lists
most of the hardware components (not computers with components build
in) supported by Linux, so reading through this document you can
choose the components for your own Linux computer. As the list of
components supported by Linux is growing rapidly, this document will
never be complete. So, when components are not mentioned in this
HOWTO, the only reason will be that I don't know they are supported. I
simply have not found support for the component and/or nobody has told
me about support.

Subsections titled Others list hardware with alpha or beta drivers in
varying degrees of usability or other drivers that aren't included in
standard kernels. Note that some drivers only exist in alpha kernels,
so if you see something listed as supported but isn't in your version
of the Linux kernel, upgrade.

The latest version of this document can be found on
<http://users.bart.nl/~patrickr/hardware-howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html>,
SunSite and all the usual mirror sites. Translations of this and other
Linux HOWTO's can be found at
<http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations> and
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations>.

If you know of any Linux hardware (in)compatibilities not listed here
please let me know, just send mail. You can also check David Welton's
page <http://lil.ashpool.com>. There you can fill in a form with your
incompatible hardware and send it to him by mail. Thanks.

Still need some help selecting components after reading this document?
Check the "Build Your Own PC" site at <http://www.verinet.com/pc/>.

1.2. Copyright

This HOWTO is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it ubder the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free software Foundation; either version 2 of the
license, or (at your option) any later version.

This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU
General Public License for more details. You can obtain a copy of the
GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software
Foundation,, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

If you use this or any other Linux HOWTO's in a commercial
distribution, it would be nice to send the authors a complimentary
copy of your product.
1.3. System architectures

This document only deals with Linux for Intel platforms, for other
platforms check the following:

� ARM Linux
<http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/~rmk92/armlinux.html>

� Linux/68k

� Linux/8086
<http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html>

� Linux/Alpha
<http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/>

� Linux/MIPS
<http://www.fnet.fr/linux-mips/>

� Linux/PowerPC
<http://www.linuxppc.org/>

� Linux for Acorn
<http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/linux.html>

� Linux for PowerMac
<http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/mklinux/mkarchive/info/index.html>

2. Computers/Motherboards/BIOS

ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI buses are all supported.

PS/2 and Microchannel (MCA) is supported in the standard kernel 2.0.7.
There is support for MCA in kernel 2.1.16 and newer, but this code is
still a little buggy. For more information you can always look at the
Micro Channel Linux Home Page ( <http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/>)

2.1. Specific systems

� IBM PS/2 MCA systems
<ftp://ftp.dcrl.nd.edu/pub/misc/linux/>

Many new PCI boards are causing a couple of failure messages during
boot time when "Probing PCI Hardware". The procedure presents the
folowing message

Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7100). Please read include/linux/pci.h

It tells you to read the pci.h file. From this file is the following
quote

PROCEDURE TO REPORT NEW PCI DEVICES
We are trying to collect information on new PCI devices, using
the standard PCI identification procedure. If some warning is
displayed at boot time, please report
- /proc/pci
- your exact hardware description. Try to find out
which device is unknown. It may be you mainboard chipset.
PCI-CPU bridge or PCI-ISA bridge.
- If you can't find the actual information in your hardware
booklet, try to read the references of the chip on the board.
- Send all that to linux-pcisupport@cao-vlsi.ibp.fr,
and I'll add your device to the list as soon as possible

BEFORE you send a mail, please check the latest linux releases
to be sure it has not been recently added.

Thanks
Frederic Potter.

Normally spoken you motherboard and the unknown PCI devices will
function correctly.

2.2. Unsupported

� Supermicro P5MMA with BIOS versions 1.36, 1.37 and 1.4. Linux will
not boot on this motherboard. A new (beta) release of the BIOS
which makes Linux boot, is available at
<ftp.supermicro.com/mma9051.zip>

� Supermicro P5MMA98. Linux will not boot on this motherboard. A new
(beta) release of the BIOS which makes Linux boot, is available at
<ftp.supermicro.com/a98905.zip>?

3. Laptops

For more information about Linux and laptops, the following site is a
good starting point.

� Linux Laptop Homepage
<http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/>

Other information related to laptops can be found at the following
sites:

� Avanced Power Management
<ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/faith/linux/>

� Notebook battery status
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/power/>

� non-blinking cursor
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/noblink-1.7.tar.gz>

� other general info
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/laptops/>

3.1. Specific laptops

� Compaq Concerto (pen driver)
<http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/>

� Compaq Contura Aero
<http://domen.uninett.no/~hta/linux/aero-faq.html>

� IBM ThinkPad
<http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/tp-linux.html>

� NEC Versa M and P
<http://www.santafe.edu:80/~nelson/versa-linux/>

� Tadpole P1000
<http://www.tadpole.com/Support/linux.html>

� Tadpole P1000 (another one)

� TI TravelMate 4000M
<ftp://ftp.biomath.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/TM4000M-mini-HOWTO.txt.Z>

� TI TravelMate 5100

� Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT
<http://terra.mpikg-teltow.mpg.de/~burger/T400CDT-Linux.html>

3.2. PCMCIA

� PCMCIA
<http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html>

PCMCIA drivers currently support all common PCMCIA controllers,
including Databook TCIC/2, Intel i82365SL, Cirrus PD67xx, and Vadem
VG-468 chipsets. Motorola 6AHC05GA controller used in some Hyundai
laptops is not supported. See Appendix B for a list of supported
PCMCIA cards.

4. CPU/FPU

Intel/AMD/Cyrix 386SX/DX/SL/DXL/SLC, 486SX/DX/SL/SX2/DX2/DX4 are
supported. Intel Pentium and Petium Pro also work. AMD K5 and K6 work
good, although older versions of K6 should be avoided as they are
buggy.

Linux has built-in FPU emulation if you don't have a math coprocessor.

Experimental SMP (multiple CPU) support is included in kernel 1.3.31
and newer. Check the Linux/SMP Project page for details and updates.

� Linux/SMP Project
<http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html>

A few very early AMD 486DX's may hang in some special situations. All
current chips should be okay and getting a chip swap for old CPU's
should not be a problem.

ULSI Math*Co series has a bug in the FSAVE and FRSTOR instructions
that causes problems with all protected mode operating systems. Some
older IIT and Cyrix chips may also have this problem.

There are problems with TLB flushing in UMC U5S chips in very old
kernels. (1.1.x)

� enable cache on Cyrix processors
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/CxPatch030.tar.z>

� Cyrix software cache control
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/linux.cxpatch>

� Cyrix 5x86 CPU register settings
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cx5x86mod_1.0c.tgz>

5. Video cards

Linux will work with all video cards in text mode, VGA cards not
listed below probably will still work with mono VGA and/or standard
VGA drivers.

If you're looking into buying a cheap video card to run X, keep in
mind that accelerated cards (ATI Mach, ET4000/W32p, S3) are MUCH
faster than unaccelerated or partially accelerated (Cirrus, WD) cards.

``32 bpp'' is actually 24 bit color aligned on 32 bit boundaries. It
does NOT mean the cards are capable of 32 bit color, they still
display 24 bit color (16,777,216 colors). 24 bit packed pixels modes
are not supported in XFree86, so cards that can do 24 bit modes to get
higher resolutions in other OS's are not able to do this in X using
XFree86. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3 801/805/868/968,
ET4000, and others.

5.1. Diamond video cards

Most currently available Diamond cards ARE supported by the current
release of XFree86. Early Diamond cards may not be officially
supported by XFree86, but there are ways of getting them to work.
Diamond is now actively supporting the XFree86 Project.

5.2. SVGALIB (graphics for console)

� VGA

� EGA

� ARK Logic ARK1000PV/2000PV

� ATI VGA Wonder

� ATI Mach32

� Cirrus 542x, 543x

� OAK OTI-037/67/77/87

� S3 (limited support)

� Trident TVGA8900/9000

� Tseng ET3000/ET4000/W32

5.3. XFree86 3.3.1

5.3.1. Accelerated

� ARK Logic ARK1000PV/VL, ARK2000PV/MT

� ATI Mach8

� ATI Mach32 (16 bpp supported for cards with RAMDAC ATI68875,
AT&T20C49x, BT481 and 2Mb video ram)

� ATI Mach64 (16/32 bpp supported for cards with RAMDAC ATI68860,
ATI68875, CH8398, STG1702, STG1703, AT&T20C408, 3D Rage II,
internal, IBM RGB514)

� Chips & Technologies 64200, 64300, 65520, 65525, 65530, 65535,
65540, 65545, 65546, 65548, 65550, 65554

� Cirrus Logic 5420, 542x/5430 (16 bpp), 5434 (16/32 bpp), 5436,
544x, 546x, 5480, 62x5, 754x

� IBM 8514/A

� IBM XGA-I, XGA-II

� IIT AGX-010/014/015/016 (16 bpp)

� Matrox MGA2064W (Millennium)

� Matrox MGA1064SG (Mystique)

� Number Nine Imagine I128

� Oak OTI-087

� S3 732 (Trio32), 764 (Trio64), Trio64V+, 801, 805, 864, 866, 868,
86C325 (ViRGE), 86C375 (ViRGE/DX), 86C385 (ViRGE/GX), 86C988
(ViRGE/VX), 911, 924, 928, 964, 968

� see Appendix A for list of supported S3 cards

� SiS 86c201, 86c202, 86c205

� Trident 9440, 96xx, Cyber938x

� Tseng ET4000/W32/W32i/W32p, ET6000

� Weitek P9000 (16/32 bpp)

� Diamond Viper VLB/PCI

� Orchid P9000

� Western Digital WD90C24/24A/24A2/31/33

5.3.2. Unaccelerated

� Alliance AP6422, AT24

� ATI VGA Wonder series

� Avance Logic AL2101/2228/2301/2302/2308/2401

� Cirrus Logic 6420/6440, 7555

� Compaq AVGA

� DEC 21030

� Genoa GVGA

� MCGA (320x200)

� MX MX68000/MX68010

� NCR 77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+

� NVidia NV1

� Oak OTI-037C, OTI-067, OTI-077

� RealTek RTG3106

� SGS-Thomson STG2000

� Trident 8800CS, 8200LX, 8900x, 9000, 9000i, 9100B, 9200CXr,
9320LCD, 9400CXi, 9420, 9420DGi, 9430DGi

� Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX

� VGA (standard VGA, 4 bit, slow)

� Video 7 / Headland Technologies HT216-32

� Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1, WD90C00/10/11/30

5.3.3. Monochrome

� Hercules mono

� Hyundai HGC-1280

� Sigma LaserView PLUS

� VGA mono

5.3.4. Others

� EGA (ancient, from c. 1992)
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/BETA/Xega/>

5.4. S.u.S.E. X-Server

S.u.S.E. is building a serie of X-servers based on the XFree-86 code.
These X-servers support new video cards and are bug fixe releases for
XFree86 X-servers. S.u.S.E is building these X-servers together with
The XFree86 Project, Inc. These X-Servers will be in the next XFree86
version. These X-servers can be found at
<http://www.suse.de/index.html>. At this moment S.u.S.E. X-Servers are
available for the following video cards.

� XSuSE Elsa GLoria X-Server

� ELSA GLoria L, GLoria L/MX, Gloria S

� Video cards with the Alliance Semiconductor AT3D (also AT25) Chip

� Hercules Stingray 128 3D

� XSuSE NVidia X-Server. (with PCI and AGP support)

� ASUS 3Dexplorer

� Diamond Viper 330

� ELSA VICTORY Erazor

� STB Velocity 128

� XSuSE Matrox. Support for Mystique, Millennium, Millennium II and
Millennium II AGP

� XSuSE Tseng. W32, W32i ET6100 and ET6300 support.

5.5. Commercial X servers

Commercial X servers provide support for cards not supported by
XFree86, and might give better performances for cards that are
supported by XFree86. In general they support many more cards than
XFree86, so I'll onlys list cards that aren't supported by XFree86
here. Contact the vendors directly or check the Commercial HOWTO for
more info.

5.5.1. Accelerated-X 1.2

� Chips & Technologies 82C45x, 82C48x

� Compaq QVision 2000

� Weitek P9100

X Inside, Inc. <info@xinside.com>

Accel-X supports most cards in 16 and 32 bpp modes and it also
supports 24 bit packed pixel modes for cards that have these modes,
including ATI Mach32, Mach64 (1280x1024@24bpp), ET4000/W32p,
S3-866/868/968, and more. Accel-X also supports other input hardware
like graphics tablets and touchscreens.

Accel-X also supports XVideo (Xv) extensions (on Matrox Comet, Marvel-
II, and SPEA ShowTime Plus), PEX, and XIE.

5.5.2. Metro-X 2.3

Metro Link <sales@metrolink.com>

Metro-X supports more boards than XFree but less than Accel-X, however
I don't have much more information as I can't seem to view the
PostScript files they sent me. Mail them directly for more info.

The S3 ViRGE video card is said not to be supported by Metro-X.

6. Controllers (hard drive)

Linux will work with standard IDE, MFM and RLL controllers. When using
MFM/RLL controllers it is important to use ext2fs and the bad block
checking options when formatting the disk.

Enhanced IDE (EIDE) interfaces are supported. With up to two IDE
interfaces and up to four hard drives and/or CD-ROM drives. Linux will
detect these EIDE interfaces:

� CMD-640

� DTC 2278D

� FGI/Holtek HT-6560B

� RZ1000

� Triton I (82371FB) (with busmaster DMA)

� Triton II (82371SB) (with busmaster DMA)

ESDI controllers that emulate the ST-506 (MFM/RLL/IDE) interface will
also work. The bad block checking comment also applies to these
controllers.

Generic 8 bit XT controllers also work.

Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3 IDE/ATAPI is provided.

Other Controllers Supported:

� Tekram D690CD IDE PCI Cache Controller (with RAID level 1 Mirroring
and caching)

7. Controllers (SCSI)

It is important to pick a SCSI controller carefully. Many cheap ISA
SCSI controllers are designed to drive CD-ROM's rather than anything
else. Such low end SCSI controllers are no better than IDE. See the
SCSI HOWTO and look at performance figures before buying a SCSI card.

7.1. Supported

� AMI Fast Disk VLB/EISA (BusLogic compatible)

� Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA) (Adaptec 152x compatible)

� Adaptec AHA-1510/152x (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6260/6360)

� Adaptec AHA-154x (ISA) (all models)

� Adaptec AHA-174x (EISA) (in enhanced mode)

� Adaptec AHA-274x (EISA) / 284x (VLB) (AIC-7770)

� Adaptec AHA 2920

� Adaptec AHA-2940/3940 (PCI) (AIC-7870) (since 1.3.6)

� Adaptec AVA1502E (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6360). Use the AHA 152x driver

� Always IN2000

� BusLogic (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (all models)

� DPT PM2001, PM2012A (EATA-PIO)

� DPT Smartcache/SmartRAID Plus,III,IV families (ISA/EISA/PCI)
Take a look at <http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/dpt/>(EATA-
DMA)
Cards in these families are PM2011, PM2021, PM2041, PM3021,
PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042, PM3122, PM3222, PM3332,
PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144, PM3224, PM3334

� DTC 329x (EISA) (Adaptec 154x compatible)

� Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260 (PCI)

� Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950

� ICP-Vortex PCI-SCSI Disk Array Controllers (many RAID levels
supported)
Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at <ftp://icp-
vortex.com/download/linux/>. The controllers GDT6111RP, GDT6121RP,
GDT6117RP, GDT6127RP, GDT6511RP, GDT6521RP, GDT6517RP, GDT6527RP,
GDT6537RP and GDT6557RP are supported. You can also use pre-
patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.

� ICP-Vortex EISA-SCSI Controllers (many RAID levels supported)
Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at <ftp://icp-
vortex.com/download/linux/>. The controllers GDT3000B, GDT3000A,
GDT3010A, GDT3020A and GDT3050A are supported. You can also use
pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.

� Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI (ISA)

� NCR 5380 generic cards

� NCR 53c400 (Trantor T130B) (use generic NCR 5380 SCSI support)

� NCR 53c406a (Acculogic ISApport / Media Vision Premium 3D SCSI)

� NCR 53c7x0, 53c8x0 (PCI)

� Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408) (ISA/VLB)

� Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-200MG

� Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)

� SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 (Adaptec 152x compatible) (ISA)

� Tekram DC-390, DC-390W/U/F

� Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (ISA)

� UltraStor 14F (ISA), 24F (EISA), 34F (VLB)

� Western Digital WD7000 SCSI

7.2. Others

� AMD AM53C974, AM79C974 (PCI) (Compaq, HP, Zeos onboard SCSI)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/AM53C974-0.3.tgz>

� Adaptec ACB-40xx SCSI-MFM/RLL bridgeboard
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/adaptec-40XX.tar.gz>

� Always Technologies AL-500
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/al500-0.2.tar.gz>

� BusLogic (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (new beta driver)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/BusLogic-1.3.0.tar.gz>

� Iomega PC2/2B
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/iomega_pc2-1.1.x.tar.gz>

� Qlogic (ISP1020) (PCI)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/isp1020-0.5.gz>

� Ricoh GSI-8
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/gsi8.tar.gz>

7.3. Unsupported

� Parallel port SCSI adapters

� Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x)

8. Controllers (I/O)

Any standard serial/parallel/joystick/combo cards. Linux supports
8250, 16450, 16550, and 16550A UART's. Cards that support non-standard
IRQ's (IRQ > 9) can be used.

See National Semiconductor's ``Application Note AN-493'' by Martin S.
Michael. Section 5.0 describes in detail the differences between the
NS16550 and NS16550A. Briefly, the NS16550 had bugs in the FIFO
circuits, but the NS16550A (and later) chips fixed those. However,
there were very few NS16550's produced by National, long ago, so these
should be very rare. And many of the ``16550'' parts in actual modern
boards are from the many manufacturers of compatible parts, which may
not use the National ``A'' suffix. Also, some multiport boards will
use 16552 or 16554 or various other multiport or multifunction chips
from National or other suppliers (generally in a dense package
soldered to the board, not a 40 pin DIP). Mostly, don't worry about it
unless you encounter a very old 40 pin DIP National ``NS16550'' (no A)
chip loose or in an old board, in which case treat it as a 16450 (no
FIFO) rather than a 16550A. - Zhahai Stewart <zstewart@hisys.com>

9. Controllers (multiport)

9.1. Non-intelligent cards

9.1.1. Supported

� AST FourPort and clones (4 port)

� Accent Async-4 (4 port)

� Arnet Multiport-8 (8 port)

� Bell Technologies HUB6 (6 port)

� Boca BB-1004, 1008 (4, 8 port) - no DTR, DSR, and CD

� Boca BB-2016 (16 port)

� Boca IO/AT66 (6 port)

� Boca IO 2by4 (4 serial / 2 parallel, uses 5 IRQ's)

� Computone ValuePort (4, 6, 8 port) (AST FourPort compatible)

� DigiBoard PC/X (4, 8, 16 port)

� Comtrol Hostess 550 (4, 8 port)

� PC-COMM 4-port (4 port)

� SIIG I/O Expander 4S (4 port, uses 4 IRQ's)

� STB 4-COM (4 port)

� Twincom ACI/550

� Usenet Serial Board II (4 port)

Non-intelligent cards usually come in two varieties, one using
standard com port addresses and use 4 IRQ's, and another that's AST
FourPort compatible and uses a selectable block of addresses and a
single IRQ. (Addresses and IRQ's are set using setserial.) If you're
getting one of these cards, be sure to check which standard it
conforms to, prices are no indication.

9.2. Intelligent cards

9.2.1. Supported

� Cyclades Cyclom-8Y/16Y (8, 16 port) (ISA/PCI)

� DigiBoard PC/Xe (ISA), PC/Xi (EISA) and PC/Xeve
<ftp://ftp.digibd.com/drivers/linux/>

� Stallion EasyIO (ISA) / EasyConnection 8/32 (ISA/MCA)

� Stallion EasyConnection 8/64 / ONboard (ISA/EISA/MCA) / Brumby /
Stallion (ISA)

9.2.2. Others

� Comtrol RocketPort (8/16/32 port)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/comtrol-1.04.tar.gz>

� Computone IntelliPort II (4/8/16 port)
contact Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com>

� DigiBoard COM/Xi
contact Simon Park (si@wimpol.demon.co.uk) or Mark Hatle
(fray@krypton.mankato.msus.edu). NOTE: both email addresses seem
not to exist any longer.

� Hayes ESP8
contact Dennis Boylan <dennis@lan.com>

� Moxa C102, C104, C168, C218 (8 port), C320 (8/16/24/32 expandable)
and C320T
<ftp://ftp.moxa.com.tw/drivers/linux/>
� Specialix SIO/XIO (modular, 4 to 32 ports)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/sidrv.taz>

10. Network adapters

Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the newer
the design the better. Some very old cards like the 3Com 3C501 are
only useful because they can be found in junk heaps for $5 a time. Be
careful with clones, not all are good clones and bad clones often
cause erratic lockups under Linux. Read the Ethernet HOWTO,
<http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/>, for detailed descriptions of
various cards.

10.1. Supported

10.1.1. Ethernet

For ethernet cards with the DECchip DC21x4x family the "Tulip" driver
is available. More information on this driver can be found at
<http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html>.

� 3Com 3C501 - ``avoid like the plague''

� 3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C509/3C509B (ISA) / 3C579 (EISA)

� 3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3C590, 3c592, 3C595, 3c597)
(PCI), 3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang Ethercards (3c900, 3c905) (PCI)
and 3Com Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515) (ISA)
Newer versions of this driver are available at
<http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html>

� AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A,
NE1500/NE2100)

� AT&T GIS WaveLAN

� Allied Telesis AT1700

� Allied Telesis LA100PCI-T

� Ansel Communications AC3200 EISA

� Apricot Xen-II / 82596

� Cabletron E21xx

� Cogent EM110

� Danpex EN-9400

� DEC DE425 (EISA) / DE434/DE435 (PCI) / DE450/DE500 (DE4x5 driver)

� DEC DE450/DE500-XA (Tulip driver)

� DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS

� DEC EtherWORKS 3

� DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver)

� Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184

� HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)

� HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)

� HP 10/100VG PCLAN (J2577, J2573, 27248B, J2585) (ISA/EISA/PCI)
More information at
<http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/linux/drivers/100vg.html>

� ICL EtherTeam 16i / 32 EISA

� Intel EtherExpress

� Intel EtherExpress Pro

� KTI ET16/P-D2, ET16/P-DC ISA (work jumperless and with hardware-
configuration options)

� NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones)

� New Media Ethernet

� PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023

� SEEQ 8005

� SMC Ultra / EtherEZ (ISA)

� SMC 9000 series

� SMC PCI EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip driver)

� Schneider & Koch G16

� Western Digital WD80x3

� Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter

� Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver)

10.1.2. ISDN

� Linux ISDN WWW page
<http://www.ix.de/ix/linux/linux-isdn.html>

� 3Com Sonix Arpeggio
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/network/sonix.tgz>

� AVM A1
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� Combinet EVERYWARE 1000 ISDN
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/network/combinet1000isdn-1.02.tar.gz>

� Creatix PnP S0
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� Elsa Microlink PCC-16, PCF, PCF-Pro, PCC-8
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� ELSA QuickStep 1000
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� ICN ISDN cards
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� ITK ix1-micro Rev.2
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� Octal PCBIT
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� Teles 8.0/16.0/16.3 and compatible ones
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

� Teles S0
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

ISDN cards that emulate standard modems or common Ethernet adapters
don't need any special drivers to work.

10.1.3. Pocket and portable adapters

� Accton parallel port ethernet adapter

� AT-Lan-Tec/RealTek parallel port adapter

� D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port adapter

10.1.4. Slotless

� SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port)

� EQL (serial IP load balancing)

� PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional
cable

10.1.5. ARCnet

� Works with all ARCnet cards

10.1.6. Token Ring

� Any IBM token ring card not using DMA

� IBM Tropic chipset cards

10.1.7. FDDI

� DEC DEFEA (EISA) / DEFPA (PCI) (kernel 2.0.24 and later)

10.1.8. Amateur radio (AX.25)

� Gracilis PackeTwin

� Ottawa PI/PI2

� Most generic 8530 based HDLC boards

10.1.9. PCMCIA cards

� See Appendix B for complete list

10.2. Others

10.2.1. Ethernet

� Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip)

� Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip). Starting with kernel
1.3.66 more than 16Mb Ram is supported.

� Racal-Interlan PCI card (AMD PC net chip 97c970) ??

10.2.2. ISDN

� SpellCaster's Datacomute/BRI, Telecomute/BRI (ISA)
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/>

10.2.3. ATM

� Efficient Networks ENI155P-MF 155 Mbps ATM adapter (PCI)
<http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-atm/>

10.2.4. Frame Relay

� Sangoma S502 56K Frame Relay card
<ftp://ftp.sovereign.org/pub/wan/fr/>

10.2.5. Wireless

� Proxim RangeLan2 7100 (ISA) / 630x (OEM mini-ISA)
<http://www.komacke.com/distribution.html>

10.3. Unsupported

� Xircom adapters (PCMCIA and parallel port)

� IBM PCI Token Ring cards (all of them)

� Sysconnect / Schneider & Koch Token Ring cards (all of them)

11. Sound cards

11.1. Supported

� 6850 UART MIDI

� Adlib (OPL2)

� Audio Excell DSP16

� Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro

� Crystal CS4232 (PnP) based cards

� ECHO-PSS cards (Orchid SoundWave32, Cardinal DSP16)

� Ensoniq SoundScape

� Gravis Ultrasound

� Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard

� Gravis Ultrasound MAX

� Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support)

� Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)

� Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)

� MPU-401 MIDI

� MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro

� Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)

� Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)

� Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16

� Microsoft Sound System (AD1848)

� OAK OTI-601D cards (Mozart)

� OPTi 82C928/82C929 cards (MAD16/MAD16 Pro/ISP16/Mozart)

� Sound Blaster

� Sound Blaster Pro

� Sound Blaster 16

� Turtle Beach Wavefront cards (Maui, Tropez)

� Wave Blaster (and other daughterboards)

� Cards based on the ESS Technologies AudioDrive chips (688, 1688,
1868, etc)

11.2. Others

� MPU-401 MIDI (intelligent mode)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/sound/mpu401-0.2.tar.gz>

� AWE32 supports is started in kernel series 2.1.x?

� PC speaker / Parallel port DAC
<ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/hu-sound/>

� Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey
<ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/users/mccreary/archive/tbeach/multisound/>

11.3. Unsupported

The ASP chip on Sound Blaster 16 series and AWE64 is not supported.
AWE32's onboard E-mu MIDI synthesizer is not supported.

Nathan Laredo <laredo@gnu.ai.mit.edu> is willing to write AWE32
drivers if you send him a complimentary card. He is also willing to
write drivers for almost any hardware if you send him free samples of
your hardware.

Sound Blaster 16's with DSP 4.11 and 4.12 have a hardware bug that
causes hung/stuck notes when playing MIDI and digital audio at the
same time. The problem can happen with either Wave Blaster
daughterboards or MIDI devices attached to the MIDI port. There is no
known fix.

12. Hard drives

All hard drives should work if the controller is supported.

(From the SCSI HOWTO) All direct access SCSI devices with a block size
of 256, 512, or 1024 bytes should work. Other block sizes will not
work (Note that this can often be fixed by changing the block and/or
sector sizes using the MODE SELECT SCSI command).

Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels. The boot
partition must lie in the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS
limitations.

Some Conner CFP1060S drives may have problems with Linux and ext2fs.
The symptoms are inode errors during e2fsck and corrupt file systems.
Conner has released a firmware upgrade to fix this problem, contact
Conner at 1-800-4CONNER (US) or +44-1294-315333 (Europe). Have the
microcode version (found on the drive label, 9WA1.6x) handy when you
call.

Certain Micropolis drives have problems with Adaptec and BusLogic
cards, contact the drive manufacturers for firmware upgrades if you
suspect problems.

� Multiple device driver (RAID-0, RAID-1)
<ftp://sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/>

13. Tape drives

13.1. Supported

� SCSI tape drives
(From the SCSI HOWTO) Drives using both fixed and variable length
blocks smaller than the driver buffer length (set to 32k in the
distribution sources) are supported. Virtually all drives should
work. (Send mail if you know of any incompatible drives.)

� QIC-02 drives

� Iomega DITTO internal (ftape 3.04c and newer)

13.2. Others

� QIC-117, QIC-40/80, QIC-3010/3020 (QIC-WIDE) drives
Most tape drives using the floppy controller should work. Various
dedicated controllers (Colorado FC-10/FC-20, Mountain Mach-2,
Iomega Tape Controller II) are also supported
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes>

� ATAPI tape drives
For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is available in the kernel.
ATAPI tape drives supported are

� Seagate TapeStor 8000

� Conner CTMA 4000 IDE ATAPI Streaming tape drive

13.3. Unsupported

� Emerald and Tecmar QIC-02 tape controller cards - Chris Ulrich
<insom@math.ucr.edu>

� Drives that connect to the parallel port (eg: Colorado Trakker)

� Some high speed tape controllers (Colorado TC-15)

� Irwin AX250L/Accutrak 250 (not QIC-80)

� IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit (not QIC-80)

� COREtape Light

14. CD-ROM drives

For more information on CD-ROM drives check the CDROM-HOWTO at
<http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/>.

14.1. Supported

Common CD-ROM drives

� SCSI CD-ROM drives
(From the CD-ROM HOWTO) Any SCSI CD-ROM drive with a block size of
512 or 2048 bytes should work under Linux; this includes the vast
majority of CD-ROM drives on the market.

� EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives (IDECD)
Almost all double, quad and six speed drives are supported,
including

� Mitsumi FX400

� Nec-260

� Sony 55E

Proprietary CD-ROM drives

� Aztech CDA268-01A, Orchid CDS-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD-110, Conrad
TXC, CyCDROM CR520ie/CR540ie/CR940ie (AZTCD)

� Creative Labs CD-200(F) (SBPCD)

� Funai E2550UA/MK4015 (SBPCD)

� GoldStar R420 (GSCD)

� IBM External ISA (SBPCD)

� Kotobuki (SBPCD)

� Lasermate CR328A (OPTCD)

� LMS Philips CM 206 (CM206)

� Longshine LCS-7260 (SBPCD)

� Matsushita/Panasonic CR-521/522/523/562/563 (SBPCD)

� MicroSolutions Backpack parallel portdrive (BPCD)

� Mitsumi CR DC LU05S (MCD/MCDX)

� Mitsumi FX001D/F (MCD/MCDX)

� Optics Storage Dolphin 8000AT (OPTCD)

� Sanyo H94A (SJCD)

� Sony CDU31A/CDU33A (CDU31A)

� Sony CDU-510/CDU-515 (SOMYCD535)

� Sony CDU-535/CDU-531 (SONYCD535)

� Teac CD-55A SuperQuad (SBPCD)

14.2. Others

� LMS/Philips CM 205/225/202
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/lmscd0.4.tar.gz>

� NEC CDR-35D (old)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/linux-
neccdr35d.patch>

� Sony SCSI multisession CD-XA
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/patches/sony-multi-0.00.tar.gz>

� Parallel Port Driver
<http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html>

14.3. Notes

All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data. There are
various compatibility problems with audio CD playing utilities.
(Especially with newer low-end NEC drives.) Some alpha drivers may not
have audio support yet.
Early (single speed) NEC CD-ROM drives may have trouble with currently
available SCSI controllers.

PhotoCD (XA) is supported. The hpcdtoppm program by Hadmut Danisch
converts PhotoCD files to the portable pixmap format. The program can
be obtained from <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm> or as part
of the PBM utilities.

Many CD-Writers are supported by Linux now. For a list of CD-Writers
supported check the CD-Writing mini-HOWTO at
<http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/CD-Writing>. The X-CD-Roast
package for Linux is a graphical front-end for using CD writers. The
package can be found at <ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-
management/xcdroast-0.95.tar.gz>.

Also, reading video CD is supported in kernel series 2.1.3x and later.
A patch is available for kernel 2.0.30.

Finally, most IDE CD-ROM Changers are supported.

15. Removable drives

All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported, including
optical (MO), WORM, floptical, Bernoulli, Zip, Jaz, SyQuest, PD, and
others.

� Parallel port Zip drives
<ftp://gear.torque.net/pub/>

� Parallel port Avatar Shark-250
<http://www.torque.net/shark.html>

Removable drives work like hard disks and floppies, just fdisk/mkfs
and mount the disks. Linux provides drive locking if your drives
support it. mtools can also be used if the disks are in MS-DOS
format.

CD-R drives require special software to work. Read the CD-R Mini-
HOWTO.

Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks. Starting with
kernel 2.1.32 Linux also supports 2048 bytes/sector. A patch to kernel
2.0.30 is available at <http://liniere.gen.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2048.html>.

The 2048 bytes/sector support is needed for

� Fujitsu magneto-optical disk drives M2513

Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3 IDE/ATAPI internal Zip drives,
flopticals and PD's are supported.

� LS-120 floptical

� PD-CD

16. Mice

16.1. Supported

� Microsoft serial mouse

� Mouse Systems serial mouse

� Logitech Mouseman serial mouse

� Logitech serial mouse

� ATI XL Inport busmouse

� C&T 82C710 (QuickPort) (Toshiba, TI Travelmate)

� Microsoft busmouse

� Logitech busmouse

� PS/2 (auxiliary device) mouse

16.2. Others

� Sejin J-mouse
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/jmouse.1.1.70-jmouse.tar.gz>

� MultiMouse - use multiple mouse devices as single mouse
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/misc/MultiMouse-1.0.tgz>

� Microsoft Intellimouse

16.3. Notes

Touchpad devices like Alps Glidepoint also work, so long they're
compatible with another mouse protocol.

Newer Logitech mice (except the Mouseman) use the Microsoft protocol
and all three buttons do work. Eventhough Microsoft's mice have only
two buttons, the protocol allows three buttons.

The mouse port on the ATI Graphics Ultra and Ultra Pro use the
Logitech busmouse protocol. (See the Busmouse HOWTO for details.)

17. Modems

All internal modems or external modems connected to the serial port
should work. Alas, some manufactures have created Windows 95 only
modems. Check Appendix D for Linux incompatible hardware.

A small number of modems come with DOS software that downloads the
control program at runtime. These can normally be used by loading the
program under DOS and doing a warm boot. Such modems are probably best
avoided as you won't be able to use them with non PC hardware in the
future.

All PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers.

Fax modems need appropriated fax software to operate.

� Digicom Connection 96+/14.4+ - DSP code downloading program
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/smdl-
linux.1.02.tar.gz>

� ZyXEL U-1496 series - ZyXEL 1.4, modem/fax/voice control program
<http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz>

� ZyXEL Elite 2864 series - modem/fax/voice control program
<http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz>

� ZyXEL Omni TA 128 - modem/fax/voice control program
<http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz>

18. Printers/Plotters

All printers and plotters connected to the parallel or serial port
should work. Alas, some manufacturers have created Windows 95 only
printers. Check Appendix D for Linux incompatible hardware.

� HP LaserJet 4 series - free-lj4, printing modes control program
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/printing/free-
lj4-1.1p1.tar.gz>

� BiTronics parallel port interface
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/misc/bt-
ALPHA-0.0.1.module.patch.gz>

18.1. Ghostscript

Many Linux programs output PostScript files. Non-PostScript printers
can emulate PostScript Level 2 using Ghostscript.

� Ghostscript
<ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/>

18.1.1. Ghostscript supported printers

� Apple Imagewriter

� C. Itoh M8510

� Canon BubbleJet BJ10e (bj10e)

� Canon BubbleJet BJ200, BJC-210 (B/W only), BJC-240 (B/W only)
(bj200)

� Canon BubbleJet BJC-600, BJC-610, BJC-4000, BJC-4100, BJC-450,
MultiPASS C2500, BJC-240, BJC-70 (bjc600)

� Canon BubbleJet BJC-800 (bjc800)

� Canon LBP-8II, LIPS III

� DEC LA50/70/75/75plus

� DEC LN03, LJ250

� Epson 9 pin, 24 pin, LQ series, AP3250

� Epson Stylus Color/Color II/500/800 (stcolor)

� HP 2563B

� HP DesignJet 650C

� HP DeskJet, Deskjet Plus (deskjet)

� HP Deskjet 500, Deskjet Portable (djet500)

� HP DeskJet 400/500C/540C/690C/693C (cdj500)

� HP DeskJet 550C/560C/600/660C/682C/683C/693C/850/870Cse (cdj550)

� HP DeskJet 850/870Cse/870Cxi/680 (cdj850)

� HP DeskJet 500C/510/520/5540C/693C printing black only (cdjmono)

� HP DeskJet 600 (lj4dith)

� HP DeskJet 600/870Cse, LaserJet 5/5L (ljet4)

� HP Deskjet 500/500C/510/520/540/550C/560C/850C/855C
<ftp:ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj-2.1.tar.gz>

� HP PaintJet XL300, Deskjet 600/1200C/1600C (pjxl300)

� HP LaserJet/Plus/II/III/4

� HP PaintJet/XL

� IBM Jetprinter color

� IBM Proprinter

� Imagen ImPress

� Mitsubishi CP50 color

� NEC P6/P6+/P60

� Oki OL410ex LED (ljet4)

� Okidata MicroLine 182

� Ricoh 4081/6000 (r4081)

� SPARCprinter

� StarJet 48 inkjet printer

� Tektronix 4693d color 2/4/8 bit

� Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter

� Xerox XES printers (2700, 3700, 4045, etc.)

18.1.2. Others

� Canon BJC600/800 color printers
<ftp://petole.imag.fr/pub/postscript/ghostscript/bjc600/>

19. Scanners

For scanner support there is the package SANE (Scanner Access Now
Easy) ( <ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/sane/>). This is a
universal scanner interface. It comes complete with documentation and
several frontends and backends.

More information on handheld scanners can be found at <http://swt-
www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~1willamo/scanner.html>

19.1. Supported

� A4 Tech AC 4096 / AS 8000P
<ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-
berlin.de/pub/local/linux/a4scan/a4scan.tgz>

� Adara Image Star I
<http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/>
<ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz>

� Conrad Personal Scanner 64, P105 handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

� Epson GT6000
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/ppic0.5.tar.gz>

� Fujitsu SCSI-2 scanners
contact Dr. G.W. Wettstein <greg%wind.UUCP@plains.nodak.edu>

� Genius ColorPage-SP2
<http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/>
<ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz>

� Genius GS-B105G handheld scanner
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs105-0.0.1.tar.gz>

� Genius GeniScan GS4500, GS4500A handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz>

� HighScreen Greyscan 256 handheld scanner
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz>

� HP ScanJet II series SCSI
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/hpscanpbm-0.3a.tar.gz>

� HP ScanJet IIc, IIcx, IIp, 3c, 4c, 4p, 5p, 5pse, plus
<http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/>

� Logitech Scanman+, Scanman 32, Scanman 256 handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/logiscan-0.0.4.tar.gz>

� Microtek ScanMaker E3, E6, II, IIXE, III and 35t models
<http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/>
<ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz>

� Mustek M105 handheld scanner
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

� Mustek HT800 Turbo, Matador 105, Matador 256 handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

� Mustek Paragon 6000CX
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/muscan-2.0.6.taz>

� Nikon Coolscan SCSI 35mm film scanner
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/coolscan-0.2.tgz>

� Pearl 256 handheld scanner
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

� UMAX SCSI scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/umax-0.5.5.tar.gz>

The Mustek drivers work only with GI1904 interface cards. Eric Chang
eric.chang@chrysalis.org has created a patch to use them with IF960
interface cards.

19.2. Others

� Genius GS-4000, ScanMate/32, ScanMate/GS handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz>

� Mustek HT105, M800 handheld scanners
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

� Voelkner Personal Scanner 64 handheld scanner
<ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-
driver-0.1.8.tar.gz>

19.3. Unsupported

� Escom 256 (Primax Lector Premier 256) handheld scanner

� Genius ScanMate/256, EasyScan handheld scanners

� Mustek CG8000 handheld scanner

� Trust Ami Scan handheld scanner

20. Other hardware

20.1. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors

Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use
setterm to enable support.

20.2. Touch screens

The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen:

� Carrol Touch serial touch screen. <http://www.carrolltouch.com>

20.3. Joysticks

Joystick support is in the latest XFree86 distributions (3.3.x) and in
kernel versions 2.1.xx. For older kernels the links below are usefull.

� Joystick driver
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joystick-0.8.0.tgz>

� Joystick driver (module)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joyfixed.tgz>

20.4. Video capture boards / Frame Grabbers

� Data Translation DT2803

� Data Translation DT2851 Frame Grabber
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/dt2851-2.01.tar.gz>

� Data Translation DT3155
<http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/people/ncowan/linux/welcome.html>

� Diamond DTV2000 (based on BT848)

� Dipix XPG1000/FPG/PPMAPA (based on TI C40 DSP). Most add-on cards
are supported.
<http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html>

� Epix SVM

� Epix Silicon Video MUX series of video frame grabbing boards
<http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue13/npc13c.html>

� FAST Screen Machine II
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/ScreenMachineII.2.0.tgz>

� Hauppage Wincast TV PCI (based on BT848)
<http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html>

� Imaging Technology ITI/IC-PCI
<ftp://ftp.gom-online.de/pub/IC-PCI/icpci-0.3.2.tar.gz>

� ImageNation Cortex I
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cortex.drv.1.1.tgz>

� ImageNation CX100
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cxdrv-0.86.tar.gz>

� ImageNation PX500 (being worked on). Ask for current status
rubini@linux.it

� Imaging Technology Inc. IC-PCI frame grabber board
<ftp://gandalf.expmech.ing.tu-bs.de/pub/driver/icpci-0.2.0.tar.gz>

� Matrox Meteor
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/meteor-1.4a.tgz>

� Matrox PIP-1024
<http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/pip_tar.gz>

� Miro PCTV (based on BT848)
<http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html>

� MuTech MV1000 PCI
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/mv1000drv-0.33.tgz>

� MuTech MV200
<http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/mu_tar.gz>

� Philips PCA10TV (not in production anymore)
<ftp://ftp.il.ft.hse.nl/pub/tv1000/pctv1000.02.tgz>

� Pro Movie Studio
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/PMS-grabber.3.0.tgz>

� Quanta WinVision B&W video capture card
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/fgrabber-1.0.tgz>
� Quickcam
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/qcam-0.7c-5.tar.gz>

� Sensus 700
<http://www.robots.com/s700.htm>

� Smart Video Recorder III (based on BT848)
<http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html>

� STB TV PCI Television Tuner (based on BT848)
<http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html>

� Video Blaster, Rombo Media Pro+
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vid_src-0.6.tgz>

� VT1500 TV cards
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vt1500-1.0.9.tar.gz>

20.5. UPS

� APC SmartUPS
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/apcd-0.5.tar.gz>

� APC-BackUPS 400/600, APC-SmartUPS SU700/1400RM
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/apcupsd-2.2.tar.gz>

� UPS's with RS-232 monitoring port (genpower package)
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/genpower-1.0.1.tgz>

� A daemon to shut down and up computers connected to ups's. It's
network aware and allows server- and client-mode
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/powerd-2.0.tar.gz>

� various other UPS's are supported, read the UPS HOWTO

20.6. Multifunction boards

� Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI / Sound interface card

20.7. Data acquisition

The Linux Lab Project site collects drivers for hardware dealing with
data acquisition, they also maintain some mailing lists dealing with
the subject. I have no experience with data acquisition so please
check the site for more details.

� Linux Lab Project
<http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/>

� CED 1401

� DBCC CAMAC

� IEEE-488 (GPIB, HPIB) boards

� Keithley DAS-1200

� National Instruments AT-MIO-16F / Lab-PC+

� Analog Devices RTI-800/815 ADC/DAC board
contact Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@anu.edu.au>

20.8. Watchdog timer interfaces

� ICS WDT500-P (
<http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html>)

� ICS WDT501-P (with and without fan tachometer) (
<http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html>)

20.9. Miscellaneous

� Mattel Powerglove

� AIMS Labs RadioTrack FM radio card
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/radio/radiotrack-1.1.tgz>

� Reveal FM Radio card
<ftp://magoo.uwsuper.edu/docs/radio.html>

� Videotext cards
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/videoteXt-0.6.tar.gz>

21. Related sources of information

� Cameron Spitzer's hardware FAQ archive (??)
<ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/cameron/PC-info/>

� Computer Hardware and Software Vendor Phone Numbers
<http://mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com/comp_ph1.html>

� Guide to Computer Vendors
<http://guide.sbanetweb.com/>

� System Optimization Information
<http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/>

22. Acknowledgments

Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTO's, many
things here are shamelessly stolen from their works; to FRiC, Zane
Healy and Ed Carp, the original authors of this HOWTO; and to everyone
else who sent in updates and feedbacks. Special thanks to Eric Boerner
and lilo (the person, not the program) for the sanity checks. And
thanks to Dan Quinlan for the original SGML conversion.

23. Appendix A. S3 cards supported by XFree86 3.3.1.

CHIPSET RAMDAC CLOCKCHIP BPP CARD

801/805 AT&T 20C490 16 Actix GE 32 / 32+ 2Mb

Orchid Fahrenheit 1280(+)
801/805 AT&T 20C490 ICD2061A 16 STB PowerGraph X.24
801/805 Del S3 805
Miro Crystal 8S
Orchid Fahrenheit VA
VL-41
805 S3 GENDAC 16 Miro 10SD VLB/PCI
SPEA Mirage VLB
801/805 SS2410 ICD2061A 8 Diamond Stealth 24 VLB
801/805 AT&T 20C490 Ch8391 16 JAX 8231/8241, SPEA Mirage
801/805 S3 GENDAC Miro Crystal 10SD
805i Actix GE 32i
ELSA Winner 1000 ISA
928 AT&T 20C490 16 Actix Ultra
928 Sierra SC15025 ICD2061A 32 ELSA Winner 1000 ISA/VLB/EISA
928 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 STB Pegasus VL
928 Bt485 SC11412 16 SPEA(/V7) Mercury VLB
928 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 10/11/12
928 Ti3020 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 14/16
928 928Movie
Diamond Stealth Pro
ELSA Winner 1000TwinBus
ELSA Winner 1000VL
ELSA Winner 2000
Miro Crystal 16S
864 ICD2061A Miro Crystal 20SD (BIOS 2.xx)
864 AT&T 20C498 ICS2494 32 Miro (Crystal) 20SD (BIOS 1.xx)
864 AT&T 20C498/ ICD2061A/ 32 ELSA Winner 1000 PRO VLB/PCI
864 STG1700 ICS9161 MIRO 20SD (BIOS 2.x)
ELAS Winner 1000 PRO
864 STG1700 ICD2061A 32 Actix GE 64 VLB
864 AT&T 20C498/ ICS2595 16 SPEA(/V7) Mirage P64 DRAM (BIOS 3.x)
AT&T 21C498
864 S3 86C716 SDAC 32 ELSA Winner 1000 PRO
Miro 20SD (BIOS 3.x)
SPEA Mirage P64 DRAM (BIOS 4.x)
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM
Genoa Phantom 64i
Miro Crystal 20SD VLB (BIOS 3.xx)
864 ICS5342 ICS5342 32 Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (some)
864 SDAC Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2001
864 AT&T 20C498-13 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE64 PCI
864 ASUS Video Magic PCI V864
VidTech FastMax P20

CHIPSET RAMDAC CLOCKCHIP BPP CARD

964 ELSA Winner 2000 PRO-2,4
spider Tarantula 64
964 AT&T 20C505 ICD2061A 32 Miro Crystal 20SV PCI/40SV
964 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 Diamond Stealth 64
964 Bt9485 ICS9161A 32 SPEA Mercury 64
964 Ti3020 ICD2061A 8 ELSA Winner 2000 PRO PCI
964 Ti3025 Ti3025 32 #9 GXE64 Pro VLB/PCI
Miro Crystal 40SV
964 IBM RGB 32 Hercules Graphite Terminator 64
868 S3 86C716 SDAC 32 ELSA Winner 1000AVI
Miro Crystal 20SD PCI
868 AT&T 29C409 ELSA Winner 1000AVI
868 Diamond Stealth Video DRAM
Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2120/2200
ELSA Winner 1000PRO/X
#9 FX Motion 531

VideoLogic GrafixStar 500
968 Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3200
ELSA Gloria-4/8
ELSA Winner 2000AVI
ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X-2/X-4/X-8
Genoa VideoBlitz III AV
Hercules Graphite Terminator Pro 64
LeadTek WinFast S430
LeadTek WinFast S510
Miro Crystal 80SV
Miro Crystal 20SV
#9 FX Motion 771
VideoLogic GrafixStar 700
WinFast S430/S510
968 TVP3026 32 ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X
Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM
968 IBM RGB 32 Genoa VideoBlitz III AVI
Hercules Terminator Pro 64
STB Velocity 64 Video
#9 FX Motion 771
Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3240/3400
968 TI RAMDAC Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3240/3400
732 (Trio32) 32 Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM SE
(all Trio32 based cards)
764 (Trio64) 32 SPEA Mirage P64 (BIOS 5.x)
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM
Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2xx0
#9 FX Vision 330
STB PowerGraph 64
(all Trio64 based cards)

CHIPSET RAMDAC CLOCKCHIP BPP CARD

(Trio64V+) DSV3326
Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001
DataExpert DSV3365
ExpertColor DSV3365
MAXColor S3 Trio64V+
ELSA Winner 1000TRIO/V
Hercules Terminator 64/Video
#9 FX Motion 331
STB Powergraph 64 Video
VideoLogic GrafixStar 400
(Trio64V2) ELSA Winner 1000/T2D
(ViRGE) Canopus Co. Power Window 3DV
DSV3325
DataExpert DSV3325
Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000
Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 PRO
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PRO
Diamond Stealth 3D 3000
ELSA Victory 3D
ELSA Victory 3DX
ELSA Winner 3000-S
Expertcolor DSV3325
Hercules Terminator 64/3D
LeadTek WinFast 3D S600
MELCO WGP-VG4S
#9 FX Motion 332
Orchid Tech. Fahrenheit Video 3D
STB systems Powergraph 3D
WinFast 3D S600

(ViRGE/DX) Hercules Terminator 3D/DX
(ViRGE/GX) STB Nitro 3D
(ViRGE/VX) ELSA Winner 2000AVI/3D
ELSA Winner 3000
ELSA Winner 3000-L-42/-M-22
MELCO WGP-VX8
STB Systems Velocity 3D
911/924 Diamond Stealth VRAM
924 SC1148 DAC

NOTE: for the ViRGE/VX,DX,GX,GX2 chipsets you need XFree86 3.3.1. You
should use the XF86_SVGA server.

24. Appendix B. Supported PCMCIA cards

These cards are supported by David Hinds' PCMCIA package and this list
is taken from his web page.

24.1. Ethernet cards

� SMC, Megahertz and Ositech cards use the smc91c92_cs driver

� 3Com and Farallon cards use the 3c589_cs driver

� Fujitsu, TDK, RATOC, CONTEC, Eagle and Nextcom cards use the
fmvj18x_cs driver

All other cards use the pcnet_cs driver. Other NE2000-compatible
cards that are not on the list are also likely to work with
pcnet_cs.

� 3Com 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D

� Accton EN2212, EN2216 EtherCard

� Allied Telesis CentreCOM CE6001, LA-PCM

� Asante FriendlyNet

� AST 1082 Ethernet

� CeLAN EPCMCIA

� CNet CN30BC, CN40BC Ethernet

� Compex/ReadyLINK Ethernet Combo

� Compex Linkport Ethernet

� Connectware LANdingGear Adapter

� CONTEC C-NET(PC)C

� Danpex EN-6200P2 Ethernet

� Datatrek NetCard

� Dayna Communications CommuniCard E

� Digital DEPCM-AA Ethernet

� Digital EtherWORKS Turbo Ethernet

� D-Link DE-650, DE-660

� Eagle NE200 Ethernet

� Edimax Technology Ethernet Combo

� EFA InfoExpress 205, 207 Combo

� Eiger Labs EPX-ET10T2 Combo

� ELECOM Laneed LD-CDWA, LD-CDX, LD-CDNIA, LD-CDY

� EP-210 Ethernet

� Epson Ethernet

� EtherPRIME Ethernet

� Explorer NE-10000 Ethernet

� EZLink 4109 Ethernet

� Farallon Etherwave

� Fiberline FL-4680

� Fujitsu FMV-J181, FMV-J182, FMV-J182A

� Fujitsu Towa LA501

� Gateway 2000 Ethernet

� Genius ME3000II Ethernet

� Grey Cell Ethernet

� GVC NIC-2000P Ethernet Combo

� Hitachi HT-4840-11 EtherCard

� Hypertec HyperEnet

� IBM CreditCard Ethernet Adapter

� IC-Card Ethernet

� Infotel IN650ct Ethernet

� I-O Data PCLA/T

� Katron PE-520 Ethernet

� Kingston KNE-PCM/M, KNE-PC2

� LANEED Ethernet

� LanPro EP4000A

� Lantech Ethernet

� Linksys EtherCard

� Logitec LPM-LN10T, LPM-LN10BA Ethernet

� Longshine Ethernet

� Macnica ME-1 Ethernet

� Maxtech PCN2000 Ethernet

� Megahertz XJ10BT, XJ10BC, CC10BT Ethernet

� Melco LPC-TJ, LPC-TS

� Micronet Etherfast Adapter

� NDC Instant-Link

� Network General ``Sniffer''

� New Media EthernetLAN

� New Media LiveWir (NOT the LiveWire+)

� New Media BASICS Ethernet

� NextCom NC5310

� Novell/National NE4100 InfoMover

� Ositech Four of Diamonds

� Panasonic CF-VEL211P-B

� Planet SmartCom 2000, 3500

� PreMax PE-200 Ethernet

� Proteon Ethernet

� Ratoc REX-9822, REX-5588A/W

� Relia RE2408T Ethernet

� RPTI EP400, EP401 Ethernet

� SCM Ethernet

� SMC 8020BT EtherEZ (not the EliteCard)

� Socket Communications Socket EA LAN Adapter

� SuperSocket RE450T

� Surecom Ethernet

� SVEC PN605C

� TDK LAC-CD02x, LAK-CD021, LAK-CD022A, LAK-CD021AX Ethernet

� Thomas-Conrad Ethernet

� Trust Ethernet Combo

� Volktek NPL-402CT Ethernet

� Xircom CreditCard CE2

24.2. Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT) adapters

� Linksys EtherFast 10/100

� Xircom CreditCard CE3

24.3. Token-ring adapters

You should at least have kernel 1.3.72

� IBM Token ring Adapter

� 3Com 3c689 TokenLink III

24.4. Wireless network adapters

� AT&T GIS / NCR WaveLAN version 2.0

� DEC RoamAbout/DS

� Xircom CreditCard Netwave

24.5. ISDN

� ELSA PCMCIA

24.6. Modem and serial cards

Virtually all modem cards, simple serial port cards, and digital
cellular modems should work. Also ISDN modems that emulate a standard
UART are supported.

� Advantech COMpad-32/85 dual serial

� Quatech, IOTech dual RS-232 cards

� Quatech quad RS-232 card

� Socket Communications dual RS-232 card

24.7. Memory cards

All SRAM cards should work. Unsupported flash cards can be read but
not written.

� Epson 2MB SRAM

� IBM 8MB Flash

� Intel Series 2 and Series 2+ Flash

� Maxtor MobileMax 16MB Flash

� New Media SRAM

� TDK Flash Memory SFM20W/C 20MB

24.8. SCSI adapters

Be careful. Many vendors, particularly CD-ROM vendors, seem to switch
controller chips at will. Generally, They will use a different product
code, but not always: older (supported) New Media Bus Toaster cards
are not easily distinguishable from the current (unsupported) Bus
Toaster cards.

� Adaptec APA-1460, APA-1460A, APA-1450A SlimSCSI

� Digital SCSI II adapter

� Eiger Labs SCSI (Not the Eiger SS-1000)

� Future Domain SCSI2GO

� IBM SCSI

� Iomega ZIP Card

� IO-DATA PCSC-II, PCSC-II-L

� IO-DATA CDG-PX44/PCSC CD-ROM

� Logitec LPM-SCSI2

� Logitec LCD-601 CD-ROM

� MACNICA mPS110, mPS110-LP SCSI

� Melco IFC-SC2, IFC-DC

� NEC PC-9801N-J03R

� New Media Bus Toaster SCSI (older cards only)

� New Media Toast 'n Jam (SCSI only)

� Panasonic KXL-D740, KXL-DN740A, KXL-DN740A-NB 4X CD-ROM

� Pioneer PCP-PR1W CD-ROM

� Qlogic FastSCSI

� Raven CD-Note 4X

� RATOC REX-9530 SCSI-2

� Simple Technologies SCSI

� Sony CD-ROM Discman PRD-250

� Taxan ICD-400PN

� Toshiba NWB0107ABK, SCSC200B

24.9. ATA/IDE CD-ROM adapters

You should at least have kernel 1.3.72

� Argosy EIDE CD-ROM

� Caravelle CD-36N

� Creative Technology CD-ROM

� Digital Mobile Media CD-ROM

� EXP CD940 CD-ROM

� IO-DATA CDP-TX4/PCIDE, CDP-TX6/PCIDE, CDP-TX10/PCIDE, CDV-
HDN6/PCIDE, MOP-230/PCIDE

� H45 Technologies Quick 2x CD-ROM

24.10. Multifunction cards

You should at least have kernel 1.3.73

� 3Com 3c562, 3c562B/C/D, 3c563B/C/D

� ActionTec Comnet EF336 modem 28.8 + ethernet 10Mb (only modem part
works)

� IBM Home and Away Card

� Linksys LANmodem 28.8, 33.6

� Megahertz/U.S. Robotics EM1144, EM3288, EM3336

� Motorola Mariner

� Motorola Marquis

� Ositech Jack of Diamonds

� Xircom CreditCard CEM28, CEM33, CEM56

24.11. ATA/IDE card drives

These card drives are supported starting with kernel 1.3.72. Both
Flash-ATA cards and rotating-media cards are supported.

24.12. Miscellaneous cards

� Trimble Mobile GPS (uses serial/modem driver)

24.13. Cards with separately distributed drivers

� IBM Smart Capture (Koji Okamura oka@nanotsu.kobe-u.ac.jp)

24.14. Working on ...

People are working on the following cards:

� Nat'l Inst DAQCard (Eric Gonzalez root@colomsat.net.co)

� Roland SCP-55 MIDI (Toshiaki Nakatsu ir9k-nkt@asahi.net.or.jp)

� CyberRom CD-ROM (David Rowntree rowntree@dircon.co.uk)

� IO DATA PCSC-II (Katayama Nobuhiro kata-n@po.iijnet.or.jp)

� Macnica mPS-1x0 (Katayama Nobuhiro kata-n@po.iijnet.or.jp)

� FORTEZZA encryption (Rex Riggins rriggins@radium.ncsc.mil)

� Harris PRISM/AM79C930 (Mark Mathews mark@mail.absoval.com)

� IBM Etherjet (Danilo Beuche danili@cs.tu-berlin.de). The driver can
be found at <http://www.first.gmd.de/~danilo/pc-driver>

� Teles PCMCIA

� Xircom CE3 (Werner Koch werner.koch@guug.de)

24.15. Unsupported

� ActionTec Comnet EF336 modem 28.8 + ethernet 10Mb (ethernet part
not supported)

� Adaptec/Trantor APA-460 SlimSCSI

� CanonCompaq PCMCIA floppy drive

� New Media .WAVjammer and all other sound cards

� All 100baseT ethernet adapters

� Panasonic KXL-D720, KXL-D745

� SMC 8016 EliteCard

� Telxon/Aironet wireless adapter

� Xircom CE II Ethernet/Modem

� Xircom CE-10BT Ethernet

25. Appendix C. Plug and Play devices

For people having trouble getting Plug and Play devices to work, the
ISA PnP utilities written by Peter Fox are available. Quote from the
README:

These programs allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured
on a Linux machine.

This program is suitable for all systems, whether or not they
include a PnP BIOS.

Commands have been taken from the Plug and Play ISA specification
Version 1.0a. ( <ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/pnp/docs/>)

More information on ISA PnP utilities can be found on the website of
Peter Fox: <http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/>

Please let me know about hardware (not normally supported under Linux)
which can be put to work with the aid of these utilities. A list of
this hardware will be put in this appendix.

26. Appendix D. Linux incompatible Hardware

Some hardware manufacturers have created devices which are compatible
with MS-Dos and Windows 95 only. They seem to emulate part of the
normally available hardware in the devices by software packages sold
together with the device. Specification on these devices are not
presented to the world so it is almost impossible to write drivers for
these devices. Below a list of devices reported as being Linux
incompatible will be given.

Simply put, it is best to avoid hardware which states things like
"Needs Windows" or "Windows only".

� All Hewlet Packard HP Deskjet 820xx printers

� The Multiwave Innovation CommWave V.34 modem (
<http://www.multiwave.com/>)

� US Robotics WinModem series

� US Robotics Sportster Voice/Fax modem (X2 model 1785 internal PnP)

� Boca modem (model M336l)

� Boca Research 28.8 internal modem (model MV34AI)

� Zoltrix 33.6 Win HSP Voice/Speaker Phone modem

� Motorola ModemSURFR internal 56K??

� DSVD modem??

� Compaq 192 pcmcia modem/serial card

� New Media Winsurfer pcmcia mode/serial card

� Sharp JX-9210 printer

27. Glossary

AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port. A bus interconnect mechanism designed
to improve performance of 3D graphics applications. AGP is a
dedicated bus from the graphics subsystem to the core-logic
chipset.
<http://www.euro.dell.com/intl/euro/r+d/r+dnews/vectors/vect_2-1/v2-1_agp.htm>

ATAPI
AT Attachment Packet Interface. A new protocol for controlling
mass storage devices similar to SCSI protocols. It builds on the
ATA (AT Attachment) interface, the official ANSI Standard name
for the IDE interface developed for hard disk drives. ATAPI is
commonly used for hard disks, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and
other devices.

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

DMA
Direct Memory Access

EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EIDE
Enhanced IDE

EISA
Extended Industry System Architecture

FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface. High-speed ring local area
network.

IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics. Each drive has a built-in
controller.

ISA
Industry System Architecture

ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network

MCA
MicroChannel Architecture

MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation

MMX
Multimedia Extensions. Added to the newest generation of Intel
Pentium Processors. It offers better audio and video quality

PCI
??

RAID
Redudant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. The basic idea of RAID is
to combinr multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array
of disk drives which yields performance exceeding that of a
single large expensive drive. There are five type of redundant
array Architectures; RAID-1 through RAID-5. A non-redudant array
of disk drives is referred to as RAID-0.
<http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html>

RLL
Run Length Limited

SCSI
Small Computer Systems Interface. A standerd interface defined
for all devices in a computer. It make it possible to use a
single adapter for all devices.
<http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_scsi.html>

SVGA
Super Video Graphics Adapter
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

VGA
Video Graphics Adapter

VLB
VESA Local Bus

WORM
Write Once Read Many