Hardware Support?

volospin · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: Hardware Support?

Greetings...
How do I know whether the default Gentoo support certain hardware?
Currently I want to know about Adaptec 19160...

Thanks...
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SlashGentoo · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:37 am Post subject:

Maybe you should check if during booting from the Gentoo LiveCD it detects your hardware properly ( I think by default everything is stuck into the kernel ). Or... you can download a Knoppix CD and boot from it. If everything works fine then Gentoo will work even better

Good luck.

volospin · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:07 am Post subject:

Well, that's a way...
but I don't have the hardware in hand
so I can't test it with those CD.
and don't know which card to get...
basically 19160 is enough.
but of course I can get a 29160N or 29160...
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nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

Here's how I do it:

I go to google and search for the device and linux. E.g. Linux "Adaptec 19160" (this card is apparently supported btw). As a general rule the piece of hardware is supported if you get many results containing questions/complaints about setting it up :wink:

If you already have the hw in your box it also makes sense to search for the vendor and device id in certain cases (like if you have a no name ethernet card and you can't find it by name - such no-name devices are usually run by very cheap and popular chipsets. Those id's can be retrieved with lspci -n.
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