Hardware compatibility issues

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Subject: Hardware compatibility issues
From: Kousik Maiti <kousikster@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:17:43 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] be2e83e30909080217w577b8b5by531ba0784d8c118c@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: kousikster@gmail.com

Hi,
I checked http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for hardware compatibility of Debian. As this page tells to put the output of lspci -n command and then it shows the availability of drivers of the corresponding hardware. I put the output of one of dell servers . But it shows only a few drivers are available for that dell server . I want to give iso DVD/CD to a person who only know how to install linux ,do not know how to compile and install kernel/ driver for hardwares.

This is the lspci -n

00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:25c0 (rev 12)

00:02.0 Class 0604: 8086:25e2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 Class 0604: 8086:25e3 (rev 12)

00:04.0 Class 0604: 8086:25e4 (rev 12)
00:05.0 Class 0604: 8086:25e5 (rev 12)

00:06.0 Class 0604: 8086:25f9 (rev 12)
00:07.0 Class 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev 12)

00:10.0 Class 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)
00:10.1 Class 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)

00:10.2 Class 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)
00:11.0 Class 0600: 8086:25f1 (rev 12)

00:13.0 Class 0600: 8086:25f3 (rev 12)
00:15.0 Class 0600: 8086:25f5 (rev 12)

00:16.0 Class 0600: 8086:25f6 (rev 12)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:2690 (rev 09)

00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2688 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2689 (rev 09)

00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:268a (rev 09)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:268c (rev 09)

00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev d9)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2670 (rev 09)

00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:269e (rev 09)
01:00.0 Class 0604: 8086:0370

01:00.2 Class 0604: 8086:0372
02:0e.0 Class 0104: 1028:0015

04:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
05:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)

06:00.0 Class 0604: 8086:3500 (rev 01)
06:00.3 Class 0604: 8086:350c (rev 01)

07:00.0 Class 0604: 8086:3510 (rev 01)
07:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:3514 (rev 01)

08:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
09:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)

0c:00.0 Class 0604: 8086:032c (rev 09)
11:0d.0 Class 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02)

The output I got is:-

PCI ID	Works?	Vendor	Device	Driver	Kernel
808625c0		Intel Corporation	5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub
808625e2		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 2
808625e3		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 3
808625e4		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 4
808625e5		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 5
808625f9		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 6-7
808625e7		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 7
808625f0	Yes	Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers	i5000_edac,i5k_amb	v2.6.25-
808625f0	Yes	Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers	i5000_edac,i5k_amb	v2.6.25-
808625f0	Yes	Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers	i5000_edac,i5k_amb	v2.6.25-
808625f1		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers
808625f3		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers
808625f5		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
808625f6		Intel Corporation	5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
80862690		Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1
80862688		Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1
80862689		Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2
8086268a		Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3
8086268c		Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller
8086244e	Yes	Intel Corporation	82801 PCI Bridge	i810_rng,hw_random
80862670	Yes	Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller	iTCO_wdt,intel-rng	v2.6.25-
8086269e	Yes	Intel Corporation	631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller	piix	v2.6.25-
80860370		Intel Corporation	80333 Segment-A PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
80860372		Intel Corporation	80333 Segment-B PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
10280015	Yes	Dell	PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5	megaraid_sas	v2.6.25-
11660103		Broadcom	EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge
14e4164c	Yes	Broadcom Corporation	NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet	bnx2	v2.6.29-
80863500		Intel Corporation	6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port
8086350c		Intel Corporation	6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge
80863510		Intel Corporation	6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1
80863514		Intel Corporation	6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E2
11660103		Broadcom	EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge
14e4164c	Yes	Broadcom Corporation	NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet	bnx2	v2.6.29-
8086032c		Intel Corporation	6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A
1002515e	Yes	ATI Technologies Inc	ES1000	radeonfb	v2.6.25-

This means all drivers of the hardware is not available in Debian. So there is a compatibility issue. How to resolve this issue. I want to see all yes under "works" column.

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Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!!
Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি)
Registered Linux User #474025
Registered Ubuntu User # 28654

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