Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO3.2.2
Copyright © 2001-2004 Steven Pritchard Copyright © 1997-1999 Patrick Reijnen 2004-01-30
This document attempts to list most of the hardware known to be
either supported or unsupported under Linux.
Copyright This HOWTO is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free software Foundation; either version 2 of the
license, or (at your option) any later version.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Notes on binary-only drivers
- 1.2. Notes on proprietary drivers
- 1.3. System architectures
- 1.4. Related sources of information
- 1.5. Known problems with this document
- 1.6. New versions of this document
- 1.7. Feedback and corrections
- 1.8. Acknowledgments
- 1.9. Revision History
- 2. Computers/Motherboards/BIOS
- 2.1. Specific system/motherboard/BIOS
- 2.2. Unsupported
- 3. Laptops
- 3.1. Specific laptops
- 3.2. PCMCIA
- 4. CPU/FPU
- 4.1. Intel
- 4.2. AMD
- 4.3. Cyrix
- 4.4. IDT
- 4.5. Transmeta
- 4.6. Misc. notes
- 5. Memory
- 6. Video cards
- 6.1. XFree86
- 6.2. Proprietary X servers
- 6.3. Kernel Framebuffer (fbdev)
- 6.4. SVGALIB (graphics for console)
- 7. Controllers (hard drive)
- 7.1. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 8. Controllers (SCSI)
- 8.1. Supported
- 8.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 8.3. Unsupported
- 9. SCSI RAID Controllers
- 10. IDE RAID Controllers
- 11. Controllers (I/O)
- 12. Controllers (multiport)
- 12.1. Non-intelligent cards
- 12.2. Intelligent cards
- 13. Network adapters
- 13.1. Supported
- 13.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 13.3. Unsupported
- 14. Sound cards
- 14.1. Supported
- 14.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 14.3. Unsupported
- 15. Hard drives
- 15.1. Unsupported
- 16. Tape drives
- 16.1. Supported
- 16.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 16.3. Unsupported
- 17. CD-ROM drives
- 17.1. Supported
- 17.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 17.3. Notes
- 18. CD-Writers
- 19. DVD drives
- 20. Removable drives
- 21. Mice
- 21.1. Supported
- 21.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 21.3. Notes
- 22. Modems
- 23. Printers/Plotters
- 23.1. Ghostscript
- 24. Scanners
- 24.1. Supported
- 24.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
- 24.3. Unsupported
- 25. USB
- 25.1. Digital Cameras
- 25.2. Miscellaneous
- 26. IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.Link)
- 27. PCMCIA/Cardbus cards
- 28. Other hardware
- 28.1. Amateur Radio
- 28.2. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors
- 28.3. Touch screens
- 28.4. Terminals on serial port
- 28.5. Joysticks
- 28.6. Video devices (capture boards, frame grabbers, TV tuners, etc.)
- 28.7. Digital Camera
- 28.8. UPS
- 28.9. Multifunction boards
- 28.10. Data acquisition
- 28.11. Watchdog timer interfaces
- 28.12. Miscellaneous
- 29. Appendix A. Supported Parallel Port devices
- 29.1. Ethernet
- 29.2. Hard drives
- 29.3. Tape drives
- 29.4. CD-ROM drives
- 29.5. Removable drives
- 29.6. IDE Adapter
- 29.7. SCSI Adapters
- 29.8. Digital Camera
- 29.9. PCMCIA parallel port cards
- 30. Appendix B. Linux incompatible Hardware
- 31. Glossary
1. Introduction This document lists most of the hardware components (not whole
computers) known to be supported or not supported under Linux, so
reading through this document you can choose the components for your
own Linux computer and know what to avoid. As the list of components
supported by Linux changes constantly, this document will never be
complete. If a component is not mentioned in this HOWTO, I simply
have not found support for the component and nobody has told me about
support.
Subsections titled 'Alpha, Beta drivers' list hardware with alpha or
beta drivers in varying degrees of usability. Note that some drivers
only exist in alpha kernels, so if you see something listed as
supported but isn't in your version of the Linux kernel, upgrade.
1.1. Notes on binary-only drivers Some devices are supported by binary-only modules; avoid these when
you can. Binary-only modules are modules which are compiled for ONE
kernel version. The source code for these modules has NOT been
released. This may prevent you from upgrading or maintaining your
system. It will also prevent you from using the component on
alternate (usually non-x86) architectures.
Linus Torvalds says "I allow binary-only modules, but I want
people to know that they are _only_ ever expected to
work on the one version of the kernel that they were compiled
for." (See
http://lwn.net/1999/0211/a/lt-binary.html
for the rest of the message.)
1.2. Notes on proprietary drivers Various proprietary drivers for sound, video, etc. exist for Linux.
Tracking these proprietary drivers is beyond the scope of this
document. These drivers might be mentioned at various points in
this document, but note that no effort has been made to make sure
that this information is current.
1.3. System architectures This document primarily deals with Linux for x86-based platforms.
For other platforms, check the following:
There are also the ELKS and uClinux ports, which are
forks of the mainstream kernel source designed for MMU-less
(mostly very low-end and embedded) systems.
1.4. Related sources of information
1.5. Known problems with this document This document can't possibly be up-to-date at all times. I would
like to see this document be a useful reference again. The
following items need to be fixed for that to happen:
Old cruft needs to be eliminated. Much of this document was
written in 1995, give or take, when PCI was new and not
supported terribly well, and ISA PnP was seen as something
evil. Oh, how the times have changed...
Also, many of the model numbers listed in this document are
no longer available, and are probably not of much interest to
the vast majority of people. Personally, I think hardware
that hasn't been available for more than 5 years or so can
safely be removed. Old versions of this document will always
be available on the Internet...
URLs in this document need updating. I've begun to do that,
but it is a big job... Diffs are welcome.
In the process of updating and converting this document to
DocBook, some cruft was introduced. If anyone wants to help
clean up this, get the latest source (preferably by emailing
me at <steve@silug.org>) and grep for "FIXME".
Lists in this HOWTO that are available in other HOWTOs or
FAQs need to be either updated here or dropped completely
from this document.
Newer interfaces such as USB need to be added into the list.
(Would a USB-attached hard drive go under "USB", "Removable
drives", "Hard drives", or all of the above?)
And, of course, random hardware that just isn't listed in
this document needs to be added.
All of this is going to require a lot of work. If this happens to
interest you, please email <steve@silug.org>. I can
use the help. :-)
1.7. Feedback and corrections If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel
free to email Steven Pritchard at <steve@silug.org>.
I also welcome corrections and additions. At some point in the
near future, I plan to set up a web interface for adding components
to this document. In the mean time, please just use the word
"hardware" somewhere in the subject when sending corrections or
additions.
1.8. Acknowledgments This document has passed through many hands. I don't know if he
wrote the first version, but in 1993 Ed Carp was maintaining it.
In August of 1994, FRiC (Boy of Destiny) took over. After he fell
off the face of the planet in late 1995 or early 1996 (and we all
miss him from IRC, I might add), Patrick Reijnen took over
(sometime in 1997) and continued to maintain this document until
late 1999.
Recent versions of this document contained the following:
Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTO's,
many things here are shamelessly stolen from their works; to
FRiC, Zane Healy and Ed Carp, the original authors of this
HOWTO; and to everyone else who sent in updates and feedbacks.
Special thanks to Eric Boerner and lilo (the person, not the
program) for the sanity checks. And thanks to Dan Quinlan for
the original SGML conversion.
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this document over
the years.
In addition, I'd like to thank the many members of the Southern Illinois Linux Users
Group and the Linux Users
of Central Illinois for giving me so many interesting
problems to solve over the years, and, of course, my wife Kara for
putting up with me all these years. :-)
1.9. Revision History The following is the revision history of this document since I
(Steven Pritchard) took over maintenance.
| Revision History |
|---|
| Revision 3.2.2 | 2004-01-30 | Revised by: sjp | | Opteron/Athlon64 information added.
Fixed up some of the video card entries.
Add notes about 3ware 8000-series cards, SATA, and the WD
drive "configuration update". | | Revision 3.2.1 | 2002-11-12 | Revised by: sjp | | Replaced "commercial" with "proprietary" in most cases. (I
should probably go one more step and make that "proprietary,
closed-source" or something similar. Comments and
suggestions are appreciated.)
Added placeholder IEEE 1394
section.
Updated various other sections.
Thanks to Rick Moen for prompting this revision with various
updates and suggestions. | | Revision 3.2.0 | 2002-08-13 | Revised by: sjp | | Removed a lot of cruft.
Added information direct from pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net on
supported PCMCIA cards.
Added a section on DVD drives.
Thanks to Tom Hanlin for pointing out that there was no mention
of them before.
Replaced all references to metalab with ibiblio, and all
references to linuxdoc.org with tldp.org.
Probably other changes I'm forgetting, which should teach me
not to wait so long between releases. | | Revision 3.1.5 | 2002-03-28 | Revised by: sjp | | Moved revision history to
Introduction section.
More dead link fixes and other corrections. Thanks to Lin
Hung-Ta, Silviu Tamasdan, and various others. | | Revision 3.1.4 | 2002-02-17 | Revised by: sjp | | Added note about CRIS architecture.
Updated WAN Cards section. | | Revision 3.1.3 | 2001-12-30 | Revised by: sjp | | Updated video card section and
other minor cleanups and updates. | | Revision 3.1.2 | 2001-12-21 | Revised by: sjp | | Update location for GS-4500 software in the
scanners section. (Thanks to
Jan Willamowius for pointing out that the page had moved.)
Begin updating RAID controller section by separating SCSI RAID
and IDE RAID. | | Revision 3.1.1 | 2001-12-14 | Revised by: sjp | | List printers with a "F" or missing grade from the
linuxprinting.org
database in the incompatible
hardware section. | | Revision 3.1.0 | 2001-12-12 | Revised by: sjp | | Fix/remove more broken/dead links.
Import printer listing from
linuxprinting.org. | | Revision 3.0.7 | 2001-10-18 | Revised by: sjp | | Started fixing dead links. (Thanks to Rob Janssen, Shaul Karl,
Charles McColm, and Paul Stephenson for the corrections.) | | Revision 3.0.6 | 2001-09-14 | Revised by: sjp | | Started cleaning up incompatible
hardware section. | | Revision 3.0.5 | 2001-09-04 | Revised by: sjp | | Updated CPU and motherboards sections.
Added WAN Cards section and removed old
"Frame Relay", "X.25", and "Synchronous PPP, Cisco HDLC" sections
under Network adapters. | | Revision 3.0.4 | 2001-06-25 | Revised by: sjp | | Updated Network adapters and
Controllers (multiport) sections to
include current Cyclades
products. (Thanks to Ivan Passos at Cyclades for the update.) | | Revision 3.0.3 | 2001-05-28 | Revised by: sjp | | Added USB section.
Added note on non-x86 hardware to CPU
section.
Updated Motherboards section.
Added a link to the Sound HOWTO in the Sound cards section.
Folded Related sources of information
section into introduction and removed
dead links. | | Revision 3.0.2 | 2001-05-10 | Revised by: sjp | | LDP-requested cleanup. | | Revision 3.0.1 | 2001-05-07 | Revised by: sjp | | Updated modems section. | | Revision 3.0.0 | 2001-04-22 | Revised by: sjp | | First DocBook version.
Various updates. |
2. Computers/Motherboards/BIOS ISA, VLB, EISA, PCI, and AGP buses are all supported. All recent
motherboards should work fine, although certain integrated
controllers may or may not work well (or at all).
2.1. Specific system/motherboard/BIOS Please note that this is by no means a complete list.
Please send updates.
The following are old notes and are probably out of date.
IBM PS/2 MCA systems
Supported since kernel version 2.0.7, but only for the stable
kernel releases. For information you can look at the
Micro Channel Linux Home Page.
Software for MCA systems can
be found here. Information on the MCA SCSI
subsystem can be found
here.
EFA E5TX-AT motherboard has a solvable problem with RedHat
Linux 5.0 and possibly other versions of Linux. It
spontaneously reboots while probing hardware. To solve,
update BIOS to version 1.01. Get the BIOS update
here.
The Zida 6MLX motherboard with PII Intel LX chipset is
mentioned only to work with Linux when the PII cache is
disabled in BIOS. BIOS upgrade does not solve the problem.
Symptom is random reboots during or shortly after system boot.
2.2. Unsupported Supermicro P5MMA with BIOS versions 1.36, 1.37 and 1.4. Linux
will not boot on this motherboard. A new (beta) release of
the BIOS which makes Linux boot, is available
here.
Supermicro P5MMA98. Linux will not boot on this motherboard.
A new (beta) release of the BIOS which makes Linux boot, is
available here.
DataExpert Corp. ExpertColor TX531 V1.0 motherboard with
chipset ACER M1531 (Date: 9729, TS6) and ACER M1543 (Date:
9732 TS6) seems to present not reproducible segmentations
faults, kernel oops and kernel hangs under heavy load and
tape access. The problem seems to be the PCI-bus,
respectively the ACER chipset.
3. Laptops For more information about Linux and laptops, the following sites are
good starting points.
Other information related to laptops can be found at the following sites:
4. CPU/FPU Please see this note for more on non-x86
hardware.
4.1. Intel Intel 386SX/DX/SL, 486SX/DX/SL/SX2/DX2/DX4, Pentium, Pentium Pro,
Pentium II, Pentium III (regular and Xeon versions), Pentium 4,
and Celeron are all supported.
4.2. AMD AMD 386SX/DX, 486SX/DX/DX2/DX4, K5, K6, K6-2, K6-3, and Athlon (all
varieties, including MP) are all supported. Older versions of K6
should be avoided as they are buggy. Setting "internal cache"
disabled in bios setup can be a workaround. Some early K6-2 300Mhz
have problems with the system chips.
AMD's 64-bit Opteron and Athlon64 processors are also supported,
running either in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. For 32-bit mode, compile
a kernel for i386, optionally optimized for Athlons, since that's
essentially what these processors look like in 32-bit mode. For
64-bit mode, compile a kernel for
x86_64. It will still
run 32-bit binaries, assuming all the appropriate libraries are
available. Opteron and Athlon64 systems use standard PC hardware,
so the information in this HOWTO still applies.
The old NexGen processors are also supported.
A few very early AMD 486DX's may hang in some special situations. All
current chips should be okay and getting a chip swap for old CPU's
should not be a problem.
4.3. Cyrix Cyrix 386SX/DX, 486SX/DX, 5x86, 6x86, and MediaGX are all supported.
4.4. IDT IDT Winchip
C6-PSME2006A processors are supported under Linux.
4.5. Transmeta The Transmeta
Crusoe
processors are supported.
4.6. Misc. notes Linux has built-in FPU emulation if you don't have a math coprocessor.
Linux supports SMP (multiple CPUs) in all 2.x kernels. See the
Linux SMP
HOWTO for more information.
ULSI Math*Co series has a bug in the FSAVE and FRSTOR instructions that
causes problems with all protected mode operating systems. Some older
IIT and Cyrix chips may also have this problem.
There are problems with TLB flushing in UMC U5S chips in very old
kernels. (1.1.x)
5. Memory All memory like DRAM, EDO and SDRAM can be used with Linux. Be aware
that older kernels or kernels running on a mortherboard with an older
BIOS may only be able to detect 64MB of RAM. If you have this
problem, when you add more than 64 Mb of memory you have to add the
following line to your LILO configuration file:
append="mem=<number of Mb>M"
So when you have 96 MB of memory this should become
append="mem=96M"
Don't use a number higher than the amount of RAM you really have.
This will cause crashes.
6. Video cards Please note that this section is currently being
updated, so some information may not be entirely correct or
complete.
Linux will work with all video cards in text mode, VGA cards not listed
below probably will still work with mono VGA and/or standard VGA drivers.
If you're looking into buying a cheap video card to run X, keep in mind
that accelerated cards (ATI Mach, ET4000/W32p, S3) are MUCH faster than
unaccelerated or partially accelerated (Cirrus, WD) cards.
"32 bpp" is actually 24 bit color aligned on 32 bit boundaries. It
does NOT mean the cards are capable of 32 bit color, they still
display 24 bit color (16,777,216 colors). 24 bit packed pixels modes
are not supported in XFree86, so cards that can do 24 bit modes to
get higher resolutions in other OS's are not able to do this in X
using XFree86. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3
801/805/868/968, ET4000, and others.
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) support is growing fast. Most of the
X-servers (both freely available and proprietary versions) have more
or less support for AGP.
6.1. XFree86 The following is a list of cards known to work with XFree86
versions 3.3.6 and/or 4.1.0. See the XFree86 web site for
more information.
6.2. Proprietary X servers Proprietary X servers provide support for cards not supported by
XFree86, and might give better performances for cards that are
supported by XFree86. Contact the vendors directly or check the
Commercial HOWTO for more info.
6.3. Kernel Framebuffer (fbdev) The kernel supports a graphical console on some video cards. This
support was originally designed for non-x86 architectures which
generally do not have text-capable video cards. It was integrated
into the kernel in 2.2, and now supports various video cards.
More information can be found at
linux-fbdev.org.
The following cards are supported:
Amiga builtin chipset (amifb)
ATARI builtin chipset (atafb)
ATI Rage128 (aty128fb)
ATI Mach64, RageII, RageII+, RageIIc (atyfb)
Hercules Graphics Adaptor (hgafb)
Matrox Millennium I, Millennium II, Mystique, G200 (matroxfb)
PowerMAC "platinum" (platinumfb)
S3 Savage4 (savagefb)
3Dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3 (tdfxfb)
S3 Trio64 (trio64fb)
All VESA 2.0 cards (vesafb)
6.4. SVGALIB (graphics for console)
7. Controllers (hard drive) Enhanced IDE (EIDE) interfaces are supported, including support for
UDMA and ATA/33, ATA/66, and so on for some controllers and compatible
drives. Linux will detect these IDE interfaces:
CMD-640 (Support for buggy interfaces in kernel 2.2)
RZ1000 (Support for buggy interfaces in kernel 2.2)
AEC62XX
ALI M15x3
AMD Viper
CY82C693
Cyrix CS5530 MediaGX
HPT34X
HPT366
Intel PIIXn
NS87415
OPTi 82C621
Promise PDC20246/PDC20262/PDC20267
ServerWorks OSB4
SiS5513
SLC90E66
Tekram TRM290
VIA82CXXX
DTC 2278D
FGI/Holtek HT-6560B VLB (Support for secondary interface in
kernel 2.2)
Triton I (82371FB) (with busmaster DMA)
Triton II (82371SB) (with busmaster DMA)
ALI M14xx
Promise DC4030
QDI QD6580
UMC 8672
Please see the IDE RAID controller
section for information on IDE controllers with hardware RAID
support.
Linux will work with standard IDE, MFM and RLL controllers. When using
MFM/RLL controllers it is important to use ext2fs and the bad block
checking options when formatting the disk.
ESDI controllers that emulate the ST-506 (MFM/RLL/IDE) interface will
also work. The bad block checking comment also applies to these
controllers.
Generic 8 bit XT controllers also work.
8. Controllers (SCSI) It is important to pick a SCSI controller carefully. Many cheap ISA
SCSI controllers are designed to drive CD-ROM's rather than anything
else. Such low-end SCSI controllers are no better than IDE. See the
SCSI HOWTO and look at performance figures before buying a SCSI card.
Please see the SCSI RAID controller
section for information on SCSI controllers with hardware RAID
support.
8.1. Supported AMI Fast Disk (VLB/EISA)
(BusLogic compatible)
Adaptec AVA-1502E (ISA/VLB)
(AIC-6360) (AHA1520)
Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA)
(Adaptec AHA-152x compatible)
Adaptec AVA-1825 (VLB)
(Adaptec AHA-152x compatible)
This card has a SCSI, EIDE and floppy port which all work nicely.
Adaptec AHA-1510/152x (ISA/VLB)
(AIC-6260/6360)
Adaptec AHA-154x (ISA) (all
models)
Adaptec AHA-174x (EISA) (in
enhanced mode)
Adaptec AHA-274x/274xT (EISA)
(AIC-7771). The 274xT is supported since kernel series 2.1.x
(AHA2740)
Adaptec AHA-284x (VLB)
(AIC-7770) (AHA2740)
Adaptec AHA-2910B (PCI)
(since kernel series 2.1.x)
Adaptec AHA-2920 (PCI). Use
the Future Domain driver. LILO parameters are needed when
used for hard disks.
Adaptec AHA-2920C (PCI)
Adaptec AHA-2930/U/U2 (PCI)
Adaptec AHA-2940/U/W/AU/UW/U2W/U2/U2B/U2BOEM (PCI) (AIC-7861, AIC-7871, AIC-7844,
AIC-7881, AIC-7884). Some of these are only supported since
kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)
Adaptec AHA-2944D/WD/UD/UWD (PCI).
Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x
(AHA2740)
Adaptec AHA-2950U2/U2B/U2W
Adaptec AHA-3940/U/W/UW/AUW/U2W
(PCI) (AIC-7872, AIC-7882)
(since 1.3.6). Some of these are only supported since kernel
series 2.1.x
Adaptec AHA-3950U2B/U2D
Adaptec AHA-3985U/W/UW (PCI)
(AIC-7873, AIC-7883). Some of these are only supported since
kernel series 2.1.x
Adaptec PCI controllers with
AIC-7850, AIC-7855, AIC-7860
Adaptec on board controllers with AIC-777x
(EISA), AIC-785x, AIC-786x,
AIC-787x (PCI), AIC-788x
(PCI), AIC-789x, AIC-3860.
AIC-786x and AIC-789x are supported since kernel series 2.1.x
AdvanSys ABP510/5150 Bus-Master
(ISA)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP5140 Bus-Master
(ISA) PnP
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP5142 Bus-Master
(ISA) PnP with floppy
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP920 Bus-Master (PCI)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP930/U Bus-Master
(PCI/Ultra>)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP960/U Bus-Master
(PCI/ULTRA) MAC/PC
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP542 Bus-Master (ISA)
with floppy (single channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP742 Bus-Master (EISA)
(single channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP842 Bus-Master (VL)
(single channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP940/U Bus-Master
(PCI/Ultra) (single channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP970/U Bus-Master
(PCI/Ultra) MAC/PC
(single channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP752 Dual Channel Bus-Master
(EISA) (dual channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP852 Dual Channel Bus-Master
(VL) (dual channel)
(more info)
AdvanSys ABP950 Dual Channel Bus-Master
(PCI) (dual channel)
(more info)
Always IN2000
AMD AM53C974
BusLogic FlashPoint LT/DL/LW/DW (BT-930(R), BT-920,
BT-932(R), BT-950(R), BT-952(R))
(more info)
Compaq Smart Array 2
DPT PM2001, PM2012A (EATA-PIO)
DPT Smartcache/SmartRAID Plus,III,IV families
(ISA/EISA/PCI) (EATA-DMA)
Take a look at
this page for more information.
Cards in these families are PM2011, PM2021,
PM2041, PM3021, PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042,
PM3122, PM3222, PM3332, PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144,
PM3224, PM3334
DTC 3180/3280
DTC 329x (EISA)
(Adaptec 154x compatible)
Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260
(PCI)
Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950
Future Domain chips TMC-1800, TMC-18C50, TMC-18C30, TMC-36C70
ICP-Vortex PCI-SCSI Disk Array Controllers (many RAID
levels supported) Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29
are available
here. The controllers GDT6111RP,
GDT6121RP, GDT6117RP,
GDT6127RP, GDT6511RP, GDT6521RP, GDT6517RP, GDT6527RP,
GDT6537RP and GDT6557RP are supported. You can also use
pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.
ICP-Vortex EISA-SCSI Controllers (many RAID levels
supported) Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are
available
here. The controllers GDT3000B,
GDT3000A, GDT3010A, GDT3020A
and GDT3050A are supported. You can also use
pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.
Iomega PPA3 parallel port SCSI Host Bus Adapter
embedded in ZIP drive
Initio Corp. INI-9090U INI-9100, INI-9100W/A/UW,
INI-9200U/UW, INI-9400U/UW, INI-9520U/UW,
INI-A100U2W
Initio Corp. INIC-950
Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI
(ISA)
Mylex (formerly BusLogic) W Series
(PCI) (BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D)
Mylex (formerly BusLogic) C Series
(ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI)
(BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445, BT-747C, BT-757C,
BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF)
Mylex (formerly Buslogic) S Series
(ISA/EISA/VLB)
(BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S,
BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B)
Mylex (formerly BusLogic) A Series
(ISA/EISA) (BT-742A, BT-542B)
NCR 5380 generic cards
NCR 53C400 (Trantor T130B) (use generic NCR 5380 SCSI support)
NCR 53C406a (Acculogic ISApport / Media Vision Premium 3D SCSI)
NCR chips 53C7x0 (the 53C710 is only supported in PCI variant)
NCR chips 53C810(A), 53C815, 53C820, 53C825(A), 53C860,
53C875, 53C895 (53C895 supported 'on paper')
Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408)
(ISA/VLB)
Qlogic FASXXX/FASXX family of chips
(ISA/VLB)
QLogic IQ-PCI, IQ-PCI-10, IQ-PCI-D
(PCI) (ISP1020 chip)
Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-250MG
Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)
SIIG Ultrawide SCSI Pro (Initio chipset).
SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 (Adaptec 152x compatible)
(ISA)
Tekram DC-390, DC-390W/U/F
Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (ISA)
UltraStor 14F (ISA),
24F (EISA), 34F
(VLB)
Western Digital WD7000 SCSI
8.3. Unsupported Adaptec AHA 2940UW Pro
Adaptec AAA-13x RAID Adapters
Adaptec AAA-113x Raid Port Cards
Adaptec AIC-7810
NCR chip 53C710 (ISA)
(old obsolete chip, but still used in some Compaq
models)
Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x)
9. SCSI RAID Controllers This is by no means a complete list. This section will be
updated in a future revision of this document.
10. IDE RAID Controllers Tekram D690CD IDE PCI Cache Controller (with RAID level 1
Mirroring and caching)
ARCO Inc. DupliDisk IDE disk mirroring controller
Support for ATA, IDE, E-IDE and UDMA drive. Controllers
available can be plugged into ISA and PCI slots, and directly
into the IDE controller. Furthermore, 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch
Bay Mount units are available that fit into the respective
drive bays. More information at
Arco's web site.
Make sure you have at least rev 3.00 of the firmware.
3ware Escalade IDE RAID controllers
3ware's 5000-series and 6000-series controllers have been
supported since kernel 2.2.15. Support for the 7000-series
controllers and RAID5 on the 6000-series controllers requires
kernel 2.4.5 or 2.2.20 or better. Also make sure to use a
recent firmware for RAID 5, since older firmware revisions
(and older versions of the driver) can cause data
corruption when a RAID 5 array runs degraded. 8000-series
SATA cards also work fine with recent 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels.
Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A
4-port ATA/100 controller which supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID
1+0, and RAID 5. Use the dpt_i2o driver, which is
included in recent 2.4.x kernels.
Promise SuperTRAK SX6000
6-port ATA/100 controller which supports RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 1+0, RAID 3, and RAID 5. Use the pti_st driver or
the generic i2o drivers. Be sure to set the BIOS on the
card for "Other OS" instead of "Linux", and check for
firmware updates.
11. Controllers (I/O) Any standard serial/parallel/joystick/combo cards. Linux
supports 8250, 16450, 16550, and 16550A UART's. Cards that support
non-standard IRQ's (IRQ > 9) can be used.
See National Semiconductor's ``Application Note AN-493'' by
Martin S. Michael. Section 5.0 describes in detail the
differences between the NS16550 and NS16550A. Briefly, the
NS16550 had bugs in the FIFO circuits, but the NS16550A (and
later) chips fixed those. However, there were very few NS16550's
produced by National, long ago, so these should be very rare.
And many of the ``16550'' parts in actual modern boards are from
the many manufacturers of compatible parts, which may not use
the National ``A'' suffix. Also, some multiport boards will use
16552 or 16554 or various other multiport or multifunction chips
from National or other suppliers (generally in a dense package
soldered to the board, not a 40 pin DIP). Mostly, don't worry
about it unless you encounter a very old 40 pin DIP National
``NS16550'' (no A) chip loose or in an old board, in which case
treat it as a 16450 (no FIFO) rather than a 16550A. - Zhahai
Stewart < zstewart@hisys.com>
12. Controllers (multiport)12.1. Non-intelligent cards12.1.1. Supported AST FourPort and clones (4 port)
Accent Async-4 (4 port)
Arnet Multiport-8 (8 port)
Bell Technologies HUB6 (6 port)
Boca BB-1004, 1008 (4, 8 port) - no DTR, DSR, and CD
Boca BB-2016 (16 port)
Boca IO/AT66 (6 port)
Boca IO 2by4 (4 serial / 2 parallel, uses 5 IRQ's)
Computone ValuePort (4, 6, 8 port) (AST FourPort compatible)
DigiBoard PC/X, PC/Xem, PCI/Xem, EISA/Xem, PCI/Xr
(4, 8, 16 port)
Comtrol Hostess 550 (4, 8 port)
PC-COMM 4-port (4 port)
SIIG I/O Expander 4S (4 port, uses 4 IRQ's)
STB 4-COM (4 port)
Twincom ACI/550
Usenet Serial Board II (4 port)
Non-intelligent cards usually come in two varieties, one
using standard com port addresses and use 4 IRQ's, and
another that's AST FourPort compatible and uses a selectable
block of addresses and a single IRQ. (Addresses and IRQ's
are set using setserial.)
If you're getting one of these cards, be sure to check
which standard it conforms to, prices are no indication.
12.2. Intelligent cards12.2.1. Supported Computone IntelliPort II (4/8/16 port)
(driver)
Cyclades Cyclom-Y (RISC-based, 8-32 ports)
(ISA/PCI)
(driver)
Cyclades-Z (high-end, 16-64 ports)
(PCI)
(driver)
DigiBoard PC/Xe (ISA),
PC/Xi (EISA) and PC/Xeve
(driver)
Equinox SST Intelligent serial I/O cards
(driver)
Hayes ESP 1, 2 and 8 port versions Included in kernel
since 2.1.15. The driver for kernel versions 2.0.x can
be found at
(driver)
Stallion EasyIO (ISA)
/ EasyConnection 8/32 (ISA/MCA)
/ EasyConnection 8/64 (PCI)
For DIP switch settings and configuration files check
(driver)
Stallion EasyConnection 8/64
(ISA/EISA) / ONboard
(ISA/EISA/MCA) / Brumby
(ISA) The latest driver can
be found at (driver)
12.2.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
13. Network adapters13.1. Supported13.1.1. Ethernet Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the
newer the design the better. Some very old cards like the 3Com
3c501 are only useful because they can be found in junk heaps
for $5 a time. Be careful with clones, not all are good clones
and bad clones often cause erratic lockups under Linux. Read the
Ethernet HOWTO for detailed descriptions of various cards.
For ethernet cards with the DECchip DC21x4x family the
"Tulip" driver is available. More information on this driver
can be found at
Donald Becker's site.
3Com 3c501 - "avoid like the plague" (3c501 driver)
3Com 3c503 (3c503 driver), 3c505 (3c505 driver), 3c507
(3c507 driver), 3c509/3c509B
(ISA) / 3c579
(EISA)
3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3c590, 3c592,
3c595, 3c597) (PCI),
3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang (3c900, 3c905)
(PCI) and Cyclone
(3c905B, 3c980) Ethercards (3c59x
driver) and 3Com Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515)
(ISA) (3c515 driver)
Newer versions of this drivers are available at
Donald Becker's site
Avoid the 3c900 card when possible as the driver is
not functioning well for this card.
3Com 3ccfe575 Cyclone Cardbus (3c59x driver)
3Com 3c575 series Cardbus (3c59x driver) (ALL PCMCIA ??)
AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A,
NE1500/NE2100)
AT&T GIS WaveLAN
Allied Telesis AT1700
Allied Telesis LA100PCI-T
Allied Telesyn AT2400T/BT ("ne" module)
Ansel Communications AC3200
(EISA)
Apricot Xen-II / 82596
Cabletron E21xx
Cogent EM110
Crystal Lan CS8920, Cs8900
(driver)
Danpex EN-9400
DEC DE425 (EISA) /
DE434/DE435 (PCI) /
DE450/DE500 (DE4x5 driver)
DEC DE450/DE500-XA (dc21x4x) (Tulip driver)
DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS
DEC EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205)
DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver)
Digi International RightSwitch
DLink DE-220P, DE-528CT, DE-530+, DFE-500TX, DFE-530TX
Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184
HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)
HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)
HP 10/100VG PCLAN (J2577, J2573, 27248B, J2585)
(ISA/EISA/PCI)
Driver
here,
more information at
Donald Becker's site
ICL EtherTeam 16i / 32 (EISA)
Intel EtherExpress
Intel EtherExpress Pro
KTI ET16/P-D2, ET16/P-DC ISA (work jumperless and with
hardware-configuration options)
Macromate MN-220P (PnP or NE2000 mode)
NCR WaveLAN
NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones)
Netgear FA-310TX (Tulip chip)
New Media Ethernet
PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023
SEEQ 8005
SMC Ultra / EtherEZ (ISA)
SMC 9000 series
SMC PCI EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip driver)
SMC EtherPower II (epic100.c driver)
Sun LANCE adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer)
Sun Intel adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer)
Schneider & Koch G16
Western Digital WD80x3
Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter
Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver)
13.1.2. ISDN
3Com Sonix Arpeggio
(driver)
ASUSCOM Network Inc. ISDNLink 128K PC adapter (HiSax)
AVM A1 (HiSax)
AVM B1 (avmb1)
Combinet EVERYWARE 1000 ISDN
(driver)
Compaq ISDN S0 (ISA) (HiSax)
Creatix PnP S0 (HiSax)
Dr. Neuhaus Niccy PnP/PCI (HiSax)
Dynalink IS64PH (HiSax)
Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0 (ISA/PCI)
(S0 and U interface, no PRO version) (HiSax)
Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola (HiSax)
Elsa Microlink PCC-16, PCF, PCF-Pro, PCC-8 (HiSax)
ELSA QuickStep 1000/1000PCI/3000 (HiSax)
HFC-2BS0 based cards (HiSax)
IBM Active 2000 (ISA) (act2000)
ICN ISDN cards (icn)
Ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH MIC 16 (ISA) (HiSax)
ITK ix1-micro Rev.2 (HiSax)
Octal PCBIT (pcbit)
Sedlbauer Speed Card (HiSax)
Teles SO-8/SO-16.0/SO-16.3/SO-16.3c/SO-16.4 and compatible
ones (HiSax)
Traverse Technologie NETjet PCI S0 (HiSax)
USR Sportster internal TA (HiSax)
ISDN cards that emulate standard modems or common Ethernet
adapters don't need any special drivers to work.
13.1.6. Pocket and portable adapters
13.1.7. Slotless SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port)
EQL (serial IP load balancing)
PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or
bi-directional cable
13.1.9. TokenRing Take a look at the token ring web site
here.
3Com 3C619/B/C Tokenlink 16/4 (ibmtr)
3Com 3C319 Velocity ISA (ibmtr)
IBM PCI token ring adapter
IBM Wake on Lan TR adapter
IBM 16/4 TR PCI Adapter 2, Adapter 2 Wake on Lan,
Adapter 2 Wake on Lan Special
IBM High Speedd 100/16/4 token ring
IBM ISA 16/4, MCA 16/4 (ibmtr)
IBM Tropic chipset cards
Olicom RapidFire 3139, 3140, 3141, 3540
(more info)
Olicom OC-3136, OC-3137, OC-3138, OC-3129
(more info)
Madge Smart 100/16/4 PCI, 16/4 PCI Mk3, 16/4 PCI Mk2
(more info)
Madge Presto PCI, 16/4 CardBus
(more info)
Syskonnect TR4/16(+) SK-4190 ISA, SK-4590 PCI, SK-4591 PCI
(sktr)
13.1.11. Amateur radio (AX.25)
13.2. Alpha, Beta drivers13.2.1. Ethernet Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip).
Improved support in kernel 2.2 and newer
Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip).
Starting with kernel 1.3.66 more than 16Mb Ram is
supported.
Racal-Interlan PCI card (AMD PC net chip 97c970)??
13.2.3. ATM The following is likely to be an incomplete list. See the
ATM on Linux
project web site for more information.
Efficient Networks ENI155p-MF and ENI155p-U5 155 Mbps
ATM adapter
SMC ATM Power155 9741D/F and 9746D/F 155 Mbps ATM adapter
(uses the ENI driver)
TI TNETA1570-based 155 Mbps ATM adapter by TU Chemnitz
(also known as "UniNET 1570")
ZeitNet ZN1221 and ZN1225 155 Mbps ATM adapter
IDT NICStAR 77901/77903 155 and 25 Mbps ATM adapter
(77201/77211 SAR)
Marconi - ForeRunnerLE (25 and 155 Mbps; uses the IDT
driver)
Madge (Collage 25 and 155 Client/Server)
All Interphase PCI (i)Chip ATM NICs (x575, x525, and x531)
Marconi - ForeRunner PCA-200E
IBM - TurboWays 25 (under developement)
Interphase - 5515 (under development)
Marconi - ForeRunnerHE (155 and 622 Mbps) (under
development)
13.3. Unsupported This section is likely to be out of date.
3Com 3C359 Velocity XL PCI
3Com 3C339 Velocity PCI
IBM PCI LANStreamer, MCA LANStreamer token ring
Intel TokenExpress PRO, TokenExpress 16/4
Sysconnect / Schneider & Koch Token Ring cards
(all of them)
14. Sound cards More information on sound drivers and sound cards can be found on
Alan Cox's OSS page,
ALSA, and the
Linux Sound
HOWTO.
14.1. Supported 4Front Technology Virtual Mixer (includes SoftOSS)
4Front Technology Virtual Synth (SoftOSS)
6850 UART MIDI
A-Plus Sound of Music (OPL3-SA)
A-Trend Harmony 3Ds751 (PCI)
AcerMagic S23
Adlib FM synthesizer card
Adlib MSC 16 PnP (CS4235)
AMD Interwave reference card
ARC Probook
Audio Excell DSP16
Avance Logic ALS-007 chip based cards. Code for this
chip is integrated in the Sound Blaster 16 driver.
Isapnptools should be used for configuration.
AW32 Pro (R2.2-W2)
AW35 (CS4237)
AW37 Pro (CS4235)
Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro, NX Pro 16, WaveRider 32+
Aztech Washington
BTC Mozart Sound System
BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688)
Bravo Sound Card (Opti 82C930)
Bull PowerPc builtin audio
CDR4235-6/-8
CS32-3DI
Compaq Deskpro XL integrated Business Audio
Creative EMU8000 add on (PnP)
Creative Phone Blaster 28.8/33.6
Creative Sound Blaster 1.0 to 2.0
Creative Sound Blaster Pro
Creative Sound Blaster 16
Creative Sound Blaster 16 ASP
Creative Sound Blaster 16 PnP (type-1 up to type-10)
Creative Sound Blaster 16 Vibra
Creative Sound Blaster 2.x
Creative Sound Blaster 32/AWE
Creative Sound Blaster 32/AWE PnP (type-1 up to type-10)
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 (type-1 up to type-7)
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (type-1 and type-2)
Creative Sound Blaster PCI64/128
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64/Gold and 16/32/AWE PnP
cards need to be activated using isapnptools
Creative ViBRA16C/CL/S (type-1 and type-2) PnP
Creative ViBRA16X PnP (half duplex only)
CrystaLake Crystal Clear Series 100
Crystal Audio (CS4235)
Crystal CRD4236B-1E
Crystal CRD4237B-5/-8
Crystal CSC0B35 (CS4236B)
Crystal CX4237B-SIDE
Crystal Onboard PnP Audio (CS4235)
Dell Latidude builtin audio
Diamond Crystal MM PC/104
Digital AXP builtin audio
ECHO-PSS cards (Orchid SoundWave32, Cardinal DSP16)
ESS 1868, 1869 (type-1 and type-2), 1878, 1879, 1968
PnP AudioDrive
Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371)
Ensoniq AudioPCI / SoundBlaster PCI (ES1370)
Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
Ensoniq Soundscape PnP (model 1 and 2)
Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000
Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO, VIVO90
Ensoniq ActionNote 880 C/CX
Gallant's sound card (SC-6000 and SC-66000 based)
Generic AD1815 based soundcard (PnP)
Generic CMI8330 based soundcard (PnP)
Generic Crystal CS4232 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)
Generic Crystal CS4232 by Acer (PnP mode)
Generic Crystal CS4232 type-1 up to type-3 (PnP mode)
Generic Crystal CS4235 type-1
Generic Crystal CS4236 (type-1 up to type-3)
Generic Crystal CS4236 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)
Generic Crystal CS4236A (type-1 and type-2), CS4236B
Generic Crystal CS4237 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)
Generic Crystal CS4237B (type-1 and type-2)
Generic Crystal CS4238 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)
Generic ESS ES688, ES1688, ES1788, ES1868, ES1869,
ES1887, ES1888 based soundcard or motherboard
Generic Jazz16 based soundcard
Generic MAD16 (OPTi 82C928), MAD16 Pro, MAD16 Pro
(duplex) (OPTi 82C929)
Generic Mozart soundcard (OAK OTI-601 chip)
Generic OPTi 82C924, 82C925 based sound card (PnP)
Generic OPTi 82C924 soundcard (non PnP mode). Use
the MSS driver and the isapnp tools
Generic OPTi 82C930
Generic OPTi 82C931
(more info)
Generic Soundscape based soundcard
Generic Windows Sound System compatible
Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA1 (YMF701) based soundcard
Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA2 (YMF711) based soundcard
(type-1, type-3, type-4)
Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA3 (YMF715) based soundcard
Generic Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) non-PnP
Gravis Ultrasound
Gravis Ultrasound Extreme
Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard
Gravis Ultrasound MAX
Gravis Ultrasound ACE
Gravis Ultrasound PnP (with RAM), PnP Pro
HP OmniBook 2100 (CS4236)
Home Studio 64 (analog audio only)
IBM Audio Feature (CS423x)
Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support)
Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)
Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)
MED3201 audio card
Maxi Sound 32 PnP (analog audio only)
Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D (analog audio only)
Media Sound SW/32 (non PnP mode)
MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro, 3D XG
Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)
Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)
Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS-16)
Media Vision Pro Audio Studio 16
Media Vision Thunderboard
Microsoft Windows Sound System board (AD1848)
MiroSound PCM!-pro
MultiWave AudioWave Green 16
Music Quest MIDI connector card (MCC)
Music Quest MQX-16, MQX-16S MIDI adapter
Music Quest MQX-32, MQX-32M MIDI adapter
Music Quest PC MIDI card
NEC Harmony
Orchid SoundDrive 16EZ
Pine PT201
Primax SoundStorm FM 16, SoundStorm Wave
Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Studio 16
RME Digi32, Digi32 Pro, Digi32/8
Reveal SC300
Reveal WaveExtreme Pro (with RAM)
Roland MPU IPC-T MIDI adapter
S3 SonicVibes
Shark Mako
Sharp PC8800
Shuttle Sound System 48
Spacewalker HOT-255 PCI 3D (PCI)
TerraTec Maestro 32/96
Terratec EWS64XL (audio only)
Terratec Sound System Base 1 (AD1816)
Terratec Sound System Base 64 (AD1816)
Tomato Sound System (OPTi 82C930)
Trust Sound Expert De Luxe Wave 32
Turtle Beach Classic/Tahiti/Monterey
Turtle Beach Maui
Turtle Beach Monte Carlo 928, Monte Carlo 929
Turtle Beach Pinnacle/Fiji
Turtle Beach Tropez, Tropez Plus (audio only)
Turtle Beach Daytona (audio only)
Wearnes Classic 16
Yamaha Sound Edge SW20-PC
Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 (NOT RECOMMENDED)
Zenith Z-Player
AWE32/64 supports is started in kernel series 2.1.x (check the
SoundBlaster AWE mini-HOWTO by Marcus Brinkmann
for installation details)
MPU-401 MIDI Intelligent mode (don't enable blindly)
MPU-401 MIDI UART only dumb port (don't enable blindly)
Yamaha FM synthesizers (OPL2, OPL3, OPL3-SAx (since
kernel series 2.1.x) and OPL4)
OSS supports all MIDI daughter cards including Wave
Blaster, TB Rio and Yamaha DB50XG. The only requirement is that
the "host" card is supported by OSS. Note that only the "host"
card needs to be configured using soundconf. The daughter card
will be automatically accessible through the MIDI of the "host"
card.
14.2. Alpha, Beta drivers 4Front Tech. Waveloop loopback audio device
Acer FX-3D (AD1816 based)
AVM Apex Pro card (AD1816 based)
Aztech AZT1008, AZT2320, AZT3000
Aztech SC-16 3D (AD1816 based)
Creative Sound Blaster Vibra16x
Creative Sound Blaster Live! and Live! Value Edition
Creative Labs has beta driver for this card. They work
with kernels 2.0.36 and 2.2.5 (and most probably newer
kernels in these series). The drivers can be downloaded
under the software download area at
Creative's web site.
Highscreen Sound-Boostar 32 Wave 3D (AD1816 based)
Highscreen Sound-Boostar 16 (AD1816 based)
HP Kayak (AD1816 based)
IBM MWave
Newcom SC-16 3D (AD1816 based)
PC speaker / Parallel port DAC
(driver)
Rockwell WaveArtist chipset
Sonorus STUDI/O
SY-1816 (AD1816 based)
Terratec Base 1, Base 64 (AD1816 based)
Terratec EWS64S (AD1816 based)
Turtle Beach Malibu
(driver)
For the AD1816 sound chip based sound cards isapnptools is
needed for configuration.
14.3. Unsupported Please note that this section has not been updated
recently. It is most likely incorrect.
A-Trend Harmony 3DS724 (PCI)
Actech PCI 388-A3D q
Adaptec AME-1570
Aureal Vortex (PCI)
Cardinal DSP 16
Contributed lowlevel drivers
Crystal CS4614 (PCI)
Cyrix MediaGX builtin audio
Diamond Monster Sound MX300
Diamond Sonic Impact
Dream 94PnP Home Studio
EON Bach SP901 (A3D)
ESS (PCI)
ESS Maestro-1 (PCI), Maestro-2
(PCI)
ESS Solo-1 (PCI)
Echo Personal Sound System
Generic ALS007, ALS100 based soundcard
Orchid NuSound 3D
Orchid SoundWave 32
Paradise DSP-16
Quicknet Internet LineJACK
Terratec XLerate (A3D)
Turtle Beach Montego
Turtle Beach TBS-2000
Videologic SonicStorm
Wearnes Beethoven ADSP-16
Western Digital Paradise DSP-16
Yamaha YMF724 (PCI)
The ASP chip on Sound Blaster 16 series is not supported.
AWE32's onboard E-mu MIDI synthesizer is not supported.
Nathan Laredo < laredo@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
is willing to write AWE32 drivers if you send him a
complimentary card. He is also willing to write drivers for
almost any hardware if you send him free samples of your
hardware.
Sound Blaster 16's with DSP 4.11 and 4.12 have a hardware
bug that causes hung/stuck notes when playing MIDI and digital
audio at the same time. The problem can happen with either Wave
Blaster daughterboards or MIDI devices attached to the MIDI
port. There is no known fix.
15. Hard drives All hard drives should work if the controller is supported.
Users of large Western Digital IDE hard drives (40GB up to 200GB
at least) manufactured before 2003-03-25 should look at
this FAQ
for an update that fixes a serious bug in those drives.
(From the SCSI HOWTO) All direct access SCSI devices with a
block size of 256, 512, or 1024 bytes should work. Other block
sizes will not work (Note that this can often be fixed by changing
the block and/or sector sizes using the MODE SELECT SCSI
command).
Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels. The
boot partition must lie in the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS
limitations.
Some Conner CFP1060S drives may have problems with Linux and
ext2fs. The symptoms are inode errors during
e2fsck
and corrupt file systems. Conner has released a firmware upgrade
to fix this problem, contact Conner at 1-800-4CONNER (US) or
+44-1294-315333 (Europe). Have the microcode version (found on
the drive label, 9WA1.6x) handy when you call.
Many Maxtor and Western Digital IDE drives are reported to
not happily co-exist on the same IDE cable with the other
manufacturers drive. Usually one of the drives will fail during
operation. Solution is to put them on different IDE cables.
Certain Micropolis drives have problems with Adaptec and
BusLogic cards, contact the drive manufacturers for firmware
upgrades if you suspect problems.
15.1. Unsupported The following hard drives are mentioned as not supported
by Linux. Read the bug report available.
NEC D3817, D3825, D3827, D3847 "These drives are
slightly non-SCSI-2 compliant in the values reported in
Mode Sense Page 3. In Mode Sense Page 3 all NEC D38x7
drives report their sector size as zero. The NEC drives
are the first brand of drive we have ever encountered that
reported the sector size as zero. Unfortunately, that
field in Mode Sense Page 3 is not modifiable and there is
no way to update the firmware on the D38x7 drives to
correct this problem." Problems are mentioned for D3825
and D3827 (both revision 0407). Revision 0410 of these two
hard drives seems to solve this problem.
16. Tape drives16.1. Supported SCSI tape drives (From the SCSI HOWTO) Drives using both
fixed and variable length blocks smaller than the driver
buffer length (set to 32k in the distribution sources)
are supported. Virtually all drives should work. (Send
mail if you know of any incompatible drives.)
QIC-02 drives
Iomega Ditto internal (ftape 3.04c and newer)
16.2. Alpha, Beta drivers QIC-117, QIC-40/80, QIC-3010/3020 (QIC-WIDE) drives Most
tape drives using the floppy controller should work.
Various dedicated controllers (Colorado FC-10/FC-20,
Mountain Mach-2, Iomega Tape Controller II) are also
supported
here
ATAPI tape drives For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c)
is available in the kernel. ATAPI tape drives supported
are
16.3. Unsupported Emerald and Tecmar QIC-02 tape controller cards - Chris
Ulrich < insom@math.ucr.edu
>
Drives that connect to the parallel port (eg: Colorado Trakker)
Some high speed tape controllers (Colorado TC-15)
Irwin AX250L/Accutrak 250 (not QIC-80)
IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit (not QIC-80)
COREtape Light
17. CD-ROM drives For more information on CD-ROM drives check the
CDROM-HOWTO.
17.1. Supported Common CD-ROM drives
SCSI CD-ROM drives (From the CD-ROM HOWTO) Any SCSI
CD-ROM drive with a block size of 512 or 2048 bytes should
work under Linux; this includes the vast majority of
CD-ROM drives on the market.
EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives (IDECD) Almost all double,
quad and six speed drives are supported, including
Mitsumi FX400
Nec-260
Sony 55E
Proprietary CD-ROM drives
Aztech CDA268-01A, Orchid CDS-3110, Okano/Wearnes
CDD-110, Conrad TXC, CyCDROM CR520ie/CR540ie/CR940ie
(AZTCD)
Creative Labs CD-200(F) (SBPCD)
Funai E2550UA/MK4015 (SBPCD)
GoldStar R420 (GSCD)
IBM External ISA (SBPCD)
Kotobuki (SBPCD)
Lasermate CR328A (OPTCD)
LMS Philips CM 206 (CM206)
Longshine LCS-7260 (SBPCD)
Matsushita/Panasonic CR-521/522/523/562/563 (SBPCD)
MicroSolutions Backpack parallel portdrive (BPCD)
Mitsumi CR DC LU05S (MCD/MCDX)
Mitsumi FX001D/F (MCD/MCDX)
Optics Storage Dolphin 8000AT (OPTCD)
Sanyo CDR-H94A (SJCD)
Sony CDU31A/CDU33A (CDU31A)
Sony CDU-510/CDU-515 (SOMYCD535)
Sony CDU-535/CDU-531 (SONYCD535)
Teac CD-55A SuperQuad (SBPCD)
17.2. Alpha, Beta drivers LMS/Philips CM 205/225/202
here
NEC CDR-35D (old)
here
Sony SCSI multisession CD-XA
here
Parallel Port Driver
here
17.3. Notes All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data.
There are various compatibility problems with audio CD playing
utilities. (Especially with newer low-end NEC drives.) Some
alpha drivers may not have audio support yet.
Early (single speed) NEC CD-ROM drives may have trouble
with currently available SCSI controllers.
PhotoCD (XA) is supported. The hpcdtoppm program by Hadmut
Danisch converts PhotoCD files to the portable pixmap format.
The program can be obtained from
here
or as part of the PBM utilities.
Also, reading video CD is supported in kernel series
2.1.3x and later. A patch is available for kernel 2.0.30.
Finally, most IDE CD-ROM Changers are supported.
18. CD-Writers Many CD-Writers are supported by Linux now. For an up to date
list of CD-Writers supported check the
CD-Writing HOWTO, check
here or check
here. Cdwrite
here and cdrecord here
can be used for writing CD's. The X-CD-Roast package for Linux
is a graphical front-end for using CD writers. The package can
be found at xcdroast.org.
Grundig CDR 100 IPW
HP CD-Writer+ 7100
HP SureStore 4020i
HP SureStore 6020es/i
JVC XR-W2010
Kodak PCD 225
Mitsubishi CDRW-226
Mitsumi CR-2600TE
Olympus CDS 620E
Philips CDD-521/10,522,2000,2600,3610
Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020/5040
Plextor CDR PX-24CS
Ricoh MP 1420C
Ricoh MP 6200S/6201S
Sanyo CRD-R24S
Smart and Friendly Internal 2006 Plus 2.05
Sony CDU 920S/924/926S
Taiyo Yuden EW-50
TEAC CD-R50S
WPI(Wearnes) CDR-632P
WPI(Wearnes) CDRW-622
Yamaha CDR-100
Yamaha CDR-200/200t/200tx
Yamaha CDR-400t/400tx
19. DVD drives Most, if not all, ATAPI and SCSI DVD-ROM and writable DVD drives
are supported.
Use
dvdrtools
to write DVDs.
Use Ogle,
xine,
MPlayer,
or VideoLAN
to play DVD movies.
Note that most of the notes in the CD-ROM
section apply to DVD-ROM drives as well as CD-ROM drives.
20. Removable drives All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported,
including optical (MO), WORM, floptical, Bernoulli, Zip, Jaz,
SyQuest, PD, and others.
Panasonic MO (combines a CD-ROM drive and an optical
removable disk). You have to set a switch when configuring
the kernel to get both part work at the same time.
Parallel port Zip drives
here
Parallel port Avatar Shark-250
here
Removable drives work like hard disks and floppies, just
fdisk /
mkfs
and mount the disks. Linux provides drive locking if your drives
support it.
mtools
can also be used if the disks are in MS-DOS format.
CD-R drives require special software to work. Read the CD-R Mini-HOWTO.
Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks. Starting
with kernel 2.1.32 Linux also supports 2048 bytes/sector. A
patch to kernel 2.0.30 is available at
here.
The 2048 bytes/sector support is needed for
Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3 IDE/ATAPI internal Zip drives,
flopticals and PD's are supported.
21. Mice21.1. Supported Microsoft serial mouse
Mouse Systems serial mouse
Logitech Mouseman serial mouse
Logitech serial mouse
ATI XL Inport busmouse
C&T 82C710 (QuickPort) (Toshiba, TI Travelmate)
Microsoft busmouse
Logitech busmouse
PS/2 (auxiliary device) mouse
21.2. Alpha, Beta drivers
21.3. Notes Touchpad devices like Alps Glidepoint also work, so long
they're compatible with another mouse protocol.
Newer Logitech mice (except the Mouseman) use the
Microsoft protocol and all three buttons do work. Eventhough
Microsoft's mice have only two buttons, the protocol allows
three buttons.
The mouse port on the ATI Graphics Ultra and Ultra Pro use
the Logitech busmouse protocol. (See the
Busmouse HOWTO for details.)
22. Modems All external modems connected via a RS-232 serial port should work.
This includes external ISDN adapters, although some of the extended
features of external ISDN adapaters (such as multilink) may or may
not work.
Internal modems are another story, however. There are many so-called
"winmodems" available now. In fact, it seems that most PCI modems
are winmodems. Some of them do have drivers for Linux now, but many
of the drivers are often binary-only. (See the
note on binary-only drivers.) See
Linmodems.org for more
information on Linux-supported winmodems.
Note that there are external USB winmodems on the market now, so be
very careful when shopping for external modems.
Furthermore, many flash upgradable modems only have
flash programs for Win95/NT. These modems cannot be upgraded under
Linux.
A small number of modems come with DOS software that
downloads the control program at runtime. These can normally be
used by loading the program under DOS and doing a warm boot. Such
modems are probably best avoided as you won't be able to use them
with non PC hardware in the future.
Most 16-bit PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers.
CardBus modems are usually winmodems much like PCI modems. Your best
bet for now is to find a card that lists compatibility with DOS and
Windows 3.1.
All that said, if a modem is known to have a real UART (or hardware
UART emulation), whether it is ISA, PCMCIA, etc., it should work
under Linux.
Fax modems need appropriated fax software to operate. Also
be sure that the fax part of the modem supports Class 2 or Class
2.0. It seems to be generally true for any fax software on unix
that support for Class 1.0 is not available.
An exception to this is the Linux efax program which
supports both Class 1 and Class 2 fax modems. In some cases there
can be a few (minor) technical problems with Class 1 modems. If
you have a choice it is recommend to get a Class 2 modem.
See Appendix B Linux
Incompatible Hardware for specific cards known not to work with
Linux.
The following are other good resources for finding Linux-compatible
modems:
Most of the information below is from those sites.
Other useful documents include the following:
Below is a very incomplete list of modems
currently known to work under Linux.
The following is old information and may not be entirely correct. It
may be removed in a future revision of this document.
Digicom Connection 96+/14.4+ - DSP code downloading
program
here
Motorola ModemSURFR internal 56K. Add a couple of line
to RC.SERIAL to account for IRQ and ports if they are
non-standard.
ZyXEL U-1496 series - ZyXEL 1.4, modem/fax/voice control
program
here
ZyXEL Elite 2864 series - modem/fax/voice control program
here
ZyXEL Omni TA 128 - modem/fax/voice control program
here
Also multimodem cards are supported by Linux.
The following modem is mentioned not to be supported
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