Re: USB PCI card to buy
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:54, Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com> wrote:
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> On 10 Apr 2009, at 15:46, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>>> Here's the reply I received from Startech.
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>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>
>>>> Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the Linux =
>>>> kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these cards in Linux,
>>>> =
>>>> nor have we tested with Debian, so compatibility cannot be guaranteed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would recommend letting them know that you will not buy until they
>>> support Linux.
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>> But I need it so I will buy it. From their perspective, they know that
>> the chipsets are supported in the linux kernel, but with all the
>> different distributions and versions (compared to just testing for
>> windows), it would be hard for them to test them all.
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> What, Windows doesn't have many versions? Just the last few 'main' releases
> - XP Home, Xp Pro, XP Corp, XP Home SP1, XP Pro SP1, XP Corp SP1, XP Home
> SP2, XP Pro SP2, XP Corp SP2, XP Pro x64 SP2, XP Home SP3, XP Pro SP3, All
> the 7 editions of Vista, all the seven editions of Vista SP1 and I won't
> even mention Windows 7.
I agree that it is not too hard to test that hardware works on Linux, I disagree
with your comparison to Windows versions. With regard to drivers, the different
versions of XP and Vista are less different than kernel 2.6.26 to
2.6.27 (to take
a random example). Now the differences *between* XP and Vista drivers are
more like the differences between 2.4 and 2.6, but that is only two versions.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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