Re: please recommand a media reader
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:14:31AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> When you consider hardware for linux, you do not look for 'linux
> compatible' on the box (maybe in a few rare cases). Linux supports
> chipsets. If the device has chipset XYZ and there is a driver/kernel
> module for chipset XYZ, bingo! you have a 90% chance that it will work
> out of the box. Now you may need to do a few incantation to get it to
> work! but that where 'debian tech support' comes in :-)
i'm not a newbie, but thanks for the reply. the problem is a lot of hw
doesn't tell you what it really is. especially cheap usb stuff.
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