20. 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
20.1. 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/
20.1.1. 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 Deskjet 720, 820 and 1000 series
http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa
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.)
20.1.2. Others
Canon BJC600/800 color printers
ftp://petole.imag.fr/pub/postscript/ghostscript/bjc600/
21. Scanners
For scanner support there is the package SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Information can
be found at http://www.mostang.com/sane/.
It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/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
21.1. 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.
21.2. 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
21.3. Unsupported
Acer scanners. Acer is not releasing any programming information.
Escom 256 (Primax Lector Premier 256) handheld scanner
Genius ScanMate/256, EasyScan handheld scanners
Mustek CG8000 handheld scanner
Trust Ami Scan handheld scanner
22. Other hardware
22.1. Amateur Radio
The following cards etc. are supported:
KISS based Terminal Node Controllers
Ottawa PI card
Gracilis PacketTwin card
Other Z8530 SCC based cards
Parallel and serial port Baycom modems
Soundblaster cards
Soundcards based on the Crystal chipset
22.2. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors
Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use setterm to enable
support.
22.3. Touch screens
The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen controllers:
Carrol Touch serial touch screen
http://www.carrolltouch.com
EloGraphics
Lucas Deeco
MicroTouch
22.4. Terminals on serial port
Old terminals can easily be used under Linux by connecting them to the serial port of your
system. At least the following terminals will be supported:
VT52
VT100
VT220
VT320
VT420
22.5. 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-1.0.6.tar.gz
Joystick driver (module)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joyfixed.tgz
22.6. Video capture boards / Frame Grabbers / TV tuner
A couple of programs are available that support TV tuners. These are:
BTTV http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
Xawtv
Xtvscreen
CMOS Video Conferencing Kit. The video capture card has a BT849
chipset.
It comes with a CCD camera.
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
MaxiTV/PCI (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz
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 Recoder 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
Tekram C210 (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz
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
22.7. Digital Camera
HP Photo Smart Digital Camera
ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/digi-cam/
22.8. UPS
Various other UPS's are supported, read the UPS HOWTO
APC SmartUPS
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd
APC-BackUPS 400/600, APC-SmartUPS SU700/1400RM
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd
UPS's with RS-232 monitoring port (genpower package)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/genpower-1.0.1.tgz
MGE UPS's
http://www.mgeups.com/download/softlib.htm
and
http://www.mgeups.com/download/software/linux/upsp.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
22.9. Multifunction boards
Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI / Sound interface card
22.10. 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
22.11. Watchdog timer interfaces
Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card (ISA cards rev. A and C)
Check ftp://ftp.bitgate.com/pub/bitgate/pcwd
for the PC Watchdog
program. A driver is included in
recent kernels. More information
on this product can be found at http://www.berkprod.com/wdog.htm
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
22.12. 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
23. Related sources of information
Cameron Spitzer's hardware FAQ archive
ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/cameron/PC-info/
Guide to Computer Vendors
http://guide.sbanetweb.com/
System Optimization Information
http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/
24. 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.
25. Appendix A. S3 cards supported by XFree86 3.3.1.
NOTE: for the ViRGE/VX,DX,GX,GX2 chipsets you need XFree86 3.3.1. You should use the
XF86_SVGA server.
26. Appendix B. Supported PCMCIA cards
These cards are supported by David Hinds' PCMCIA package and this list is taken from his
web page.
26.1. 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
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/ISA
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
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
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)
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
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
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
26.2. Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT) adapters
Linksys EtherFast 10/100
Xircom CreditCard CE3
26.3. Token-ring adapters
You should at least have kernel 1.3.72
IBM Token ring Adapter
3Com 3c689 TokenLink III
26.4. Wireless network adapters
AT&T GIS / NCR WaveLAN version 2.0
DEC RoamAbout/DS
Xircom CreditCard Netwave
26.5. ISDN
ELSA PCMCIA
Sedlbauer Speed Star
Teles S0/PCMCIA
26.6. 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
26.7. 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
26.8. 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
26.9. 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 q
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
26.10. 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
26.11. 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.
26.12. Miscellaneous cards
Trimble Mobile GPS (uses serial/modem driver)
26.13. Cards with separately distributed drivers
IBM Smart Capture (Koji Okamura oka@nanotsu.kobe-u.ac.jp)
26.14. 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
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
Hayes ESP contact Dennis Boylan dennis@lan.com
Hayes ESP contact Dennis Boylan dennis@lan.com PCMCIA
Xircom CE3 (Werner Koch werner.koch@guug.de)
26.15. 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
27. 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.
28. 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".
Canon LBP-465 printer
Lexmark 1000 inkjet printer
Sharp JX-9210 printer
Epson stylus color 400
Boca Research 28.8 internal modem (model MV34AI)
Boca Research 33.6 internal modem (Joe Harjung has succeeded in
configuring the modem under Win95
and then soft booting into Linux
with the modem still working)
HP Fastmodem D4810B
IBM Mwave ("Dolphin") card. This card is a combination of
sound,
modem, fax, voice control and
dictation. Software should be loaded
to get things working.
Multiwave Innovation CommWave V.34 modem (http://www.multiwave.com/)
US Robotics WinModem series
Zoltrix 33.6 Win HSP Voice/Speaker Phone modem
Compaq 192 PCMCIA modem/serial card
New Media Winsurfer PCMCIA modem/serial card
29. 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
CDDA
Capability of CD-ROM/Writer to read out audio tracks.
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
Pheripheral Component Interconnect. 32-bit bus designed by Intel. information can be found
on http://www.pcisig.com
and http://infoserver.ee.siue.edu/~jbutter/EE580_1.html.
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
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