1 Introduction

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1.1 Welcome

Welcome to the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. This document lists most of the hardwares supported by Linux, now if only people would read this first before posting their questions on Usenet.

Subsections titled Others list hardwares with alpha or beta drivers in varying degrees of usability or other drivers that aren't included in standard kernels. Also 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.

The latest version of this document can be found on the usual sites with LDP docs, and on the web at http://homepage.eznet.net/˜frac/hardware.html . Many thanks to Paul Erkkila and E-Znet for the account. No more wacky *.th links.

If you know of any Linux hardware (in)compatibilities not listed here please let me know. Just send mail or find me on IRC. Thanks.

1.2 System architechures

This document only deals with Linux for Intel platforms, for other platforms check the following:

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