[ale] Next Generation Linux Machine
Dunlap, Randy
randy.dunlap at intel.com
Tue Sep 5 13:59:29 EDT 2000
Hi V,
> Hello folks,
>
> Recently, Myself and a a colleague of mine came to the harsh
> realization that
> newer machines are coming with no ISA slots and some with no
> serial or parallel
> ports. Although Linux will boot and run on these machines
> fine as servers, this
> presents a problem when doing desktop environments because
> the pci world is a
> bit different than the ISA world in the case of modems and
> sound cards.
Yep, things are a-changin. And good, valid questions too.
I'll only give you answers on USB.
> Can anyone recommend solutions to the following:
>
> 1) a $5-$15 pci 16bit sound card that is supported under
> linux? I know that
> the Sound Blaster Live! Value edition is supported and it
> costs about $30 but
> is the el cheapo market just out of luck?
>
> 2) The brand name of a a $20-$35 pci modem that uses the
> lucent chipset. I had
> great success with one of these modems but it was a no name
> brand. Is there a
> Brand name that I can look for and know that it has a the
> lucent chipset?
Better to ask at http://www.linmodems.org/ IMO.
> Also, what is the status of USB support for keyboards, mice
> and printers in the
> 2.2 series of kernels? Is it still a backport that you have
> to add yourself or
> is it officially integrated in now? I'd love to start using
> USB devices for
> their physical ease of use but have no luck so far.
Alan Cox mentioned just a few days ago on the linux-usb-devel
mailing list that he was planning to add USB to 2.2.18pre2
since several distributions are already including the USB
backport patch (RH 6.9.5 beta, SuSE, Corel, Mandrake, Connectiva,
maybe a few more; not Debian).
Keyboards, mice, printers work fine. Some other devices
are still just "somewhat" working.
<quote from
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/2571/25/4279764/:>
FROM: Alan Cox
DATE: 09/01/2000 13:28:33
SUBJECT: [linux-usb-devel] Linux 2.2.18pre2
I`ve merged the backport-3 with various other fixes into 2.2.18pre2. It
seems
to be the right thing to do. Most vendors ship them, they are getting mostly
useful.
Alan
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> thanks for any help you folks can give.
>
> V
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~Randy
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