Hardware Database

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Philip Johnson wrote:

>Hello,
>Is there a supported hardware database for Fedora Core? I haven't seen
>one, and I believe it would be extremely useful for people who are
>possibly migrating/moving/switching to Fedora from windows to know
>which hardware will work out of the box.
>

:-))

>I don't currently have any
>progamming skills (apart from website related programming, php for
>example) so I would be very happy to set-up and maintain such a
>database.
>
>Let me know what you think, and tell me if I'm wrong if there is a database ;)
>  
>

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
http://www.linux-usb.org/
...


:-))
you can add to your list

HP Color Laserjet 2550L (color-laserjet-2500 out of the box via 
sercomm-3port-lpt-printserver, postscript)
KYOCERA FS 1000+ (out of the box via sercomm-3port-lpt-printserver, pxlmono)

Promise FastTrack TX2000 (out of the box as software-raid, 2 modules = 
sata-promise ?,ataraid ?)

WINaccord Xpen 20GB (out of the box, usb-storage)
Olympus camedia C-310Zoom (out of the box, usb-storage)

APC Powerstack 250 tty (apcupsd)
APC smart-UPS SUA1000i (apcupsd, usb, tty)
...



my litte bug/rfe - database :-)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117048
hcl database is incomplete

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117055
[RFE] a tool for searching a/o updating the hcl database would be great

-- 
shrek-m