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RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Attercop — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:07:56 GMT

[u]Tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1[/u]

939N68PV-GLAN Motherboard
NVIDIA® nForce 630A MCP Chipset
NVIDIA® GeForce 7050 Onboard graphics
D-Link DWL-G510 (Rev.C) Wireless-G PCI adapter (amazing, works out of the box)

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

malc_wright — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:26:33 GMT

Well spotted Attercop Title changed, I'll start work on tidying it up when there have been a few more posts.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Attercop — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:11:51 GMT

Excellent idea, although if it is going to be a HCL then it might need the title changing to make that obvious.

[u]Tested on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10 & 8.04: Flawless[/u]
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
Nvidia nForce4 chipset
Nvidia 6600GT
HP PSC 1215 Printer/Scanner
Poundshop USB SD card reader
Nvidia 8500GT
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2
AMD 690V chipset
Samsung Tocco (as mass storage device)
Logitech wireless keyboard (shortcut buttons)
Logitech wireless mouse (as 5-button device)
Belkin USB bluetooth adapter
Samsung SATA dvd-rw (Lightscribe works) - Will edit model # in when i find it.
Samsung 26" display R88 model

[u]Tested on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10 & 8.04: Workarounds/Minor issue(s)[/u]
D-Link DSL-504T Modem/Router
Belkin Wireless-G Modem/Router

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:55:01 GMT

Here's my home PCs for a starter-

Dell latitude D830Laptop -OpenSuse 11.0- everything works perfectly, including wifi
IBM r40 laptop with Cisco Wifi card- as above

Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI 100
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI 500
Both work well with MythTV on any platform I have tried.

current home PCs:

Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA
Nforce 6 chipset
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
Nforce 3 chipset
Asus M2N
Nforce 430 MCP chipset
MSI "MegaPC"651 SFF barebones- fine with OpenSuse 11, using SiS chipset,

All of the above work fine with Ubuntu ( actually, mainly tested with Mythbuntu) 8.0.4.1 and OpenSuse11 all have Nvidia AGP or PCIe GFX cards except for the MSI, which has an AGP ATI video card to replace on-board.

Belkin "Flip" KVM seems to work with any Linux distro so far.

In fact, most of my hardware works fine with Linux- scanner, 3 printers, USB sticks, USB soundcards, PCMCIA USB card, PCMCIA network cards, PCMCIA wifi cards, wireless keyboard and mouse combos, etc,etc..

Add to that all of the work PCs, printers, scanners, etc- there are driver files [url=www.linuxprinting.org]on the net [/url] for almost all Ricoh, Toshiba, and Develop (Konica minolta) MFPs

Maybe we would be better off listing total no-gos, it would certainly be a shorter list!

But even then , the ASrock mobo didn't work well with Linux when I bought it, but it works fine with newer distros, so even that is a moving target.

Things that fail with Linux tend to be Cheaper or less mainstream pieces of hardware these days.
I even saw a Wifi card that claimed Linux compatibility on the box the other day!

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Sparky — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:05:30 GMT

good idea.
recently bought a new printer
brother mfc 845cw works with k/ubuntu not tried yet with kde4.
wireless/wired with kubuntu/suse11 (nightmare to set up because of how suse sets up it's firewall rules)
sabayon (easiest to set up) fedora 8
With all apart from sabayon some config editing is required but eveything works perfectly.
Also have a toshiba sat A100-998 thats works with k/ubuntu-suse-mandriva-debian-fedora-puppy-slackware freebsd and at the moment sabayon.(until i get bored)
G-card gforce 7850 gt
mobo-939 dual-sata2

Here is a link to the first place i check before buying.

http://tinyurl.com/httol

Anyone can submit not only hardware but software/games etc.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

gn2 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:28:45 GMT

[url=http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=CONROE945G-DVI]Asrock Conroe 945G-DVI[/url] Flawless in Ubuntu 8.04 including DVI add-in card, but network adapter not picked up by a few distros.
[url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/98938]Creative Audigy SE[/url] Plug & play in Ubuntu 8.04, not tested on other distros.
[url=http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=sv&cc=se&softwareitem=mp-19476-3&product=412187&os=228&lang=sv]HP PSC 1215[/url] Worked in Ubuntu 7.04 & 7.10, haven't needed to print anything for eight months so untested in 8.04 (but should be fine)

[url=http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=75&l3=480&l4=0&model=1833&modelmenu=2]Asus F9E-2P045C[/url] (T5450 model) Works with Ubuntu 8.04 though microphone doesn't work "out-of -the-box" but have made no effort to get it working as I don't need it.
Sound in Ubuntu 8.04 needs an easy fix:

[quote]sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

add the following line to the end of this file:
options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo

save, and reboot.[/quote]

EDIT: shame on me for forgetting my wee slug. The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2]Linksys NSLU2[/url] network storage adapter is a fabulous little linux friendly gadget.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Bruce R — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:41:59 GMT

It's a mammoth task, but highly laudable because Ubuntu HCLs for example, are hopelessly out-of date, mainly listing old distro version compatibility with a dubious array of hardware. Mind you, that's a general problem for Ubuntu, with Bug Report solutions being relentlessly pursued for sometimes quite historic platforms, steadfastly ignoring more popular platform problems. (OK, OK things have to start somewhere, and volunteer fixers sometimes simply can't afford to buy 'more popular' hardware.) :)
As usual when populating a new database, choosing the best initial search fields will be the key to success, but adopting the inverse of the historic view, I guess that 'by popular distro' might be best, but I'm not sure whether it oughtn't to include package exception comments. ;)
So, for example :
Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Mint5 - [A] and [B] rigs of sig - except for Inkblot and ACIDrip
Mint 4 - [A] and [B] rigs, including ACIDrip, but excluding Inkblot, with 'lm sensor' limitations.

Is this what was envisaged ? :D

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

bigdaddy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:04:48 GMT

If Simon is busy I can always log in as "Super Mod", but I'll have to put my underpants on outside my trousers

No, no a million times NO.:P

Asrock 775DUAL-VSTA
Geforce 8600GTS
Tevion DVB-T TV card
Mustek Bearpaw 2448TA scanner
Samsung 300N colour laser printer.

A few problems setting up the scanner, but the Ubuntu forums provided the solution.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

ricedg — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:42:28 GMT

HP DC7600 - Intel S775
Chipset: 945G ICH7
Graphics: 945G
Sound: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
NIC: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit

HP DC7700 - Intel S775 (2.6.24 reqd)
Chipset: Q965 ICH8
Graphics: Q965
Sound: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
NIC: 82566DM Gigabit

AMD S939
Chipset: NForce3
Graphics : AGP RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series]
Sound: nForce3 AC'97 Audio Controller
NIC: Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit

AMD SOA
PC-Chips M848A
Chipset: SiS748/963L
Graphics : AGP RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
Sound: SiS AC'97 Sound Controller
NIC: ‎SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet

All-in-one: Epson RX420
Laser: Samsung ML1710

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Just Jon — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:16:04 GMT

[quote][b]malc_wright (26/09/2008)[/b][hr]However, I'm not sure that 'Sig' contents come up in searches.[/quote]

Lol, really? :hehe:

Anyway, you can put the KN8 SLI in the list of working devices. Lan found 100% of the time. Fedora Core 7, and Open SuSE 10.1 installed on the fake RAID 0 array, without any user intervention, something other distros at the time failed with - not found what modern distros make of it, but will check later.

EN7600GT: Most distros seem to think the max resolution is 1024 x 768 prior to installing proprietry drivers. Did not work with PCLinux OS and Mandriva (last years versions), everything was way too dark.

Palit 8800GT 512: Most distros seem to think the max resolution is 1024 x 768 prior to installing proprietry drivers. Will revisit the older versions of PCLinux OS and Mandrake (and find the proper distro version while I'm at it) later on today, if I find the Live disks.

D-Link DWL-G510 (Ver C2 F/W 5) PCI WiFi card: Bit of a weird one, works OK, but some distros struggle with WPA2 PSK. RT61 Chipset btw.

D-Link-G122 (Ver C1 F/W 3) USB WiFi dongle: Works. Supports monitor mode when configured properly. RT61 Chipset, though one distro found and configured it as RT71 ?!

Hope this is the kind of info you are after, if not I'll go away :D If so, I'll continue mesing around later and post my findings.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

RRich — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:25:24 GMT

I think it's a great idea, look at me new sig :)

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

malc_wright — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:57:25 GMT

Hi Jon,

Anything you've found that works with Linux is relevant, for too long Forums have only seen the 'hardware y doesn't work'. This gives the impression that Linux is still choosy when it comes to Hardware, so the bigger the list of what works the better.

However, I'm not sure that 'Sig' contents come up in searches.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

Just Jon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:16:54 GMT

Sorry to be a pain, I'm not even 10% fluent in Linux, but I would like to contribute a little. I have a few 'new' distros I have downloaded, and some older ones (and I don't mind messing with a live to recap).

I mainly test with a live distro and take it from there (installing if working fully). I can tell tale of what the few distros that I downloaded worked with the rig in sig (and a couple of changes) over the past year or so, and I can mess with my archaic rig, but are they relevant enough?

Kernel info I would have to revisit to find.

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

ricedg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:44:30 GMT

As always it will live and die on contributions (see my Motherboard sticky)
But knowing the people that hang around here, I don't see that will be a problem :P

If Simon is busy I can always log in as "Super Mod", but I'll have to put my underpants on outside my trousers :w00t:

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

malc_wright — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:37:16 GMT

Hi Dave

I think if the rest of the forumites go along with it then I will sticky it and knock it into shape.

Your help and input would be most welcome (have a word with Simon).

RE: List of Hardware that works with Linux

ricedg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:29:17 GMT

Excellent idea Malc, but if it's to be done properly it will need to be stickied and the first page categorised and kept up to date as new information comes in, because it will end up being a HCL.
I'm thinking along the lines of Slippy's MPEG Encoding Race sticky in Systems Builders.
Otherwise it will be a nightmare trying to find information and lead to duplication.

I don't mind helping (but Simon will have to change my Mod status to include this Forum).
I have a fairly huge list as I try Linux out on PCs at work as well as everything I see in my private busisness.
Also the kernel level is important too.
My 1GB stick with Pendrive Linux, being Mandriva 2007 based, fares badly on this years hardware compared to my 4Gb sticks with a full install of Spring 2008 or Ubuntu 8.04.

As I said, excellent suggestion and I'll gladly help.

List of Hardware that works with Linux

malc_wright — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:59:54 GMT

Hi All,

I'd like to start a positive thread about Linux and compatibility issues with Hardware so I thought that I'd start a positive post about what has been found to work with Linux.

No it's not envisaged as an HCL in the formal sense, but if someone does a search of the forum for some hardware maybe overtime they'll find it in this thread.

I'll start with what's working for me at the moment;
Motherboard: MSI G33M
Graphics Card Asus 8500GT 512MB silent card
TV Card Asus P7131 Hybrid
Screen Yuraki 19" TFT
Printer Epson stylus Photo R220
Wifi USB Adaptor Safecom SWMULZ-5400

No problems with the above hardware and Linux