Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?

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From: Arnaud Bergeron
Date: Friday, July 16, 2010 - 10:19 pm

2010/7/16  <jwesleycooper@cox.net>:
Controller Hub (rev 07)
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Controller #4 (rev 03)
Controller #5 (rev 03)
Controller #6 (rev 03)
Controller #2 (rev 03)
Controller (rev 03)
1 (rev 03)
2 (rev 03)
3 (rev 03)
4 (rev 03)
5 (rev 03)
6 (rev 03)
Controller #1 (rev 03)
Controller #2 (rev 03)
Controller #3 (rev 03)
Controller #1 (rev 03)
03)
(rev 03)
03)
PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
(rev 01)
compatibility list... so will they not work, and/or what must I do to make
them work after or during the install?

I really doubt that the ISA bus and the SATA controller will not be
supported.  For the wired network card, check the rl(4) and/or re(4)
man page for it.  Or just boot a kernel and see.

On the other and I'm pretty sure that Broadcom card is not supported
(since they won't give docs), and firewire is also not supported.

To make the broadcom card work (if it doesn't, try it) you would have
to either convince Broadcom to release the docs to write a driver or
reverse-engineer it.  As for Firewire, it was supported at one point
and then taken out.  I can't remember why and I don't care enough to
search the archives.

to figure out how on Earth one determines what exactly will work and what
won't? B What search or analysis techniques are used to figure this out? B I
just can't seem to locate this kind of info on my own, and it's driving me
*nuts*, so please, tell me how on earth you guys actually figure this stuff
out in the first place...

As said before, the simplest way (if you actually have the hardware)
is to boot an install image and see what shows up as "not configured".
 That is what is unsupported.

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purpose?
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details.



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Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, jwesleycooper, (Fri Jul 16, 7:36 pm)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Arnaud Bergeron, (Fri Jul 16, 10:19 pm)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff, (Sat Jul 17, 12:36 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff, (Sat Jul 17, 12:38 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Christian Weisgerber, (Sat Jul 17, 3:45 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Jul 17, 3:57 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Jiri B., (Sat Jul 17, 4:21 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Tomas Bodzar, (Sat Jul 17, 4:22 am)
Re: Hardware Spec Search Engine?, Christian Weisgerber, (Sat Jul 17, 6:00 am)