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Existing resources

For everyone, generic web sites for all kind of devices

http://tuxmobil.org/
- for laptops & PDA
- reports of installation in many languages (links to HTML pages giving lspci and other informations...)
- people identify the model of their PC (brand name)
- factual : no poll, though problems are stated (for example there's a form to ask Intel to provide more Linux support for their Centrino(tm) technology)
- I miss some dates as some reports seem quite old (Red Hat 7.1...), some are newer Slackware 10...
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
- for laptops
http://hardware4linux.info
- an hardware compatibility list
- possibility to vote for working / broken hardware
- submission of hardware based on client side script
http://linuxprinting.org/database.html
http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Anyone
- the reference for printers : identifies properly whether it works : Perfectly Mostly Partially Paperweight
- have to check what "driver" means...
- a wiki is used for more details
http://www.libera.cc/
- only peripherals with libre drivers and no blob
http://www.linux.org/vendor/hardware/index.html
http://www.linux.org/hardware/index.html
- If you're looking for drivers or need to know if your hardware is supported, this is a good place to find out
- quite empty, similar to tuxmobil for laptops

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php
- hardware compatibility list for GNU/Linux (find contact)
- based on user to user feedback
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Hardware_TOC
- some more information about hardware
http://sourceforge.net/foundry/linuxdrivers/
http://www.linuxhardware.org/
- news about hardware
- based on slashcode
http://www.linuxhardware.net/
- list of resources about hardware
- based on user submissions
- forums to discuss categories [ Audio ] [ Video ] [ USB ] [ Network ] [ Firewire ] [ Mobile ]

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

http://linuxtransition.free.fr/mandrake/mandrake_materiel.php
- good hints at links (either french or english) to make it work

http://list.driverguide.com/list/LINUX/index.html
- list of Unix / Linux drivers
- some interesting icons to identify the type of driver (video, network card, ...)

http://www.compatiblelinux.org/
http://www.compatiblelinux.org/categorias.jsp
- spanish initiative for hardware compatible with GNU/Linux
- nice logos
- good use cases, though a bit diffult to navigate
- both english & spanish (see http://www.compatiblelinux.org/en/contactar.jsp to see if french can be added)

http://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors
- respectful products of free software
- identify unwanted firmware blobs

http://www.leenooks.com
- Linux Incompatibility List
- uses a wiki to track hardware not compatible with GNU/Linux
- content is Copyright © David N. Welton (could be worth contacting)

Specific devices

Dedicated lists to specific devices (wifi, laptop...)

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
- for thinkpad laptops

http://www.liliputing.com/liliputers
- for liliputers like Eee PC

http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/SupportedHandheldSummary
- for PDAs

http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
- linuxbios working with motherboards

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
- sound cards supported and audio with alsa

http://www.opensync.org/wiki/DeviceCompatibilityList
- list of mobile phones working with opensync
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Tested_hardware
- webcam and bluetooth adapters (audio mic)

http://www.free3d.org/
- list of graphic cards working with free driver
- benchmark based on glxgears

http://www.phoronix.com/lch/ linux compatible hardware
- community list of hardware with identification (lspci / lsusb...) + notes (working/not working)

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HardwareCompatibilityList
- hardware compatibility list for xen 3.0
- http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT processor implementing hardware virtualization, which will allow Xen to execute unmodified guest OS's.

http://eu1.networkupstools.org/compat/
- compatibility list for UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Kernel/Device_Drivers/Communications/index.shtml
- list of kernel drivers for GNU/Linux
http://www.chipweb.de/dsl/index.php?menu=1
- list of DSL modems and chipset
- there's a feedback form
- it misses some history (list of last changes) and only show linux support as yes/no
- chipset and modems are distinctly identified
http://faq.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=ModemSupport
- adsl usb modems supported by ueagle-atm
http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html
- wifi survey : Trade name Standard Chipset BUS Available Linux driver
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html
- good looking web site provident the following information
- fields are Brand Model FCCID VID/manfid PID/manfid MAC Radio Binary Driver Verified Sourceforge GPL Driver Verified AT76C503A/5/5A USB Driver Verified Vendor Driver Chipset Verified
http://ralink.rapla.net/
- wifi products that work with ralink driver
- models by brand / form factor in a table
- good presentation with links to product specs
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices
- wifi devices supported by b43 or bcm43xx driver
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
- list of wlan products compatible with Linux (depending on wifi chipset, identifying driver)
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/List_survey_of_cards_in_use_now
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware (dvb, tnt cards)
- list of tv cards and dvb, tnt cards
http://cihar.com/gammu/phonedb/
- Gammu phone database
- list of phones supported by Gammu http://cihar.com/gammu/
http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php
- IEEE Firewire for Audio | Camera | Chipset | Digital Camera | Host Adapter | Hub | Monitor | Other | Panel | Printer | Repeater | Scanner | Storage | Tuner | VCR
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html
- list of scanners, still & video cameras working / not working with GNU/Linux
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html
- status for hard disk / RAID drivers, identifies products fully supported

http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/
- PA-RISC linux, supported hardware, supporting distributions

Distributions' hardware compatibility lists

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org by fedora
- mostly statistics

http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/
- Red Hat's Hardware Compatibility List
http://qa.mandriva.com/test_hw_stat.cgi
- not working any more (see below)
- Mandriva's hardware statistics from testzilla
http://hcl.mandriva.com
- hardware compatibility list for Mandriva Linux distribution
http://dsl.linux.it/DSLChipsets
- list of chipsets for DSL modems and existing drivers
- implementation : a wiki
http://knoppix-fr.org/hardware [fr]
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
- just copy/paste the result of lspci -n and see if it's supported (existing driver ?)
http://cdb.suse.de/
- http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupport
http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/
- seems broken "Couldnt detect laptop (assuming Desktop)"
- hardware database for Ubuntu
http://ubuntuhcl.org
- by manufacturer or category and with search capabilities
- with "reviews", not very technical
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html
- FreeBSD
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html
- FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
- OpenBSD
http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/
- NetBSD
http://www.osxcompatible.free.fr/index.php?langue=en
- based on work already done for OSX
- quite empty for GNU/Linux currently
- only model / vendor identified (with comments and a note)

Some documentation and free software related links

http://www.usbman.com/linuxusb.htm
- Linux USB Guide
- does not seem updated since 2003, Kernel 2.5.2 is advertised...
http://directory.fsf.org/
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/directory/
- identifies free software
- implementation seems complicated (text files ?)
- validation of licence => important for hwdb as well (quite technical though)
http://linuxfr.org/2002/08/19/9314.html
- list of drivers by lea-linux
http://www.toolinux.com/news/economie/zdnet_acquiert_linux_hardware_database_ar273.html?var_recherche=linux
- article about zdnet that bought http://linuxdevices.com
- why did "linux hardware database" http://www.linhardware.com/ disappeared ? as well as http://lhd.zdnet.com

More technical / for developers

http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html
- devices supported with usb (more complete list below)
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/index.php
- linux-usb devices with vendor id / product id
- driver is listed with maintainer
http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
- list of known usb IDs
http://www.pcidatabase.com/
- devices with pci : vendor id / product id
- I'm not sure it's complete
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
- lspci ids : list of identifiers
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.html
http://powertweak.sf.net/
http://pciids.sf.net/
- from pciutils

http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded
- list of devices requiring drivers

http://dev.librehwdb.tuxfamily.org
- wiki listing some initiatives for free hardware / free drivers

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
- example of "manually" maintained pages
- try to find if there's a database
- good explanations on various problems with drivers (license...)
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/hypermail/parisc-linux/9187.html
- mailing-list about same project ?

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/hwdb-clients-0.16-1mdk.noarch.html
- hwdb-clients provided by Mandrakelinux
- where is hwdb-server ? See InstallHwDb

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/hfdb/2004-09/msg00002.html
- mailing-list about same project ?

http://amanda.wisc.edu/software/viewcvs.cgi/hwdb/

http://wiki.debian.net/?KernelFirmwareLicensing
- steps to look at each current kernel driver to add proper firmware licensing
- list of drivers studied with status

To review

http://web.archive.org/web/20031212190935/www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/hardware-list.phtml
- hardware drivers for *BSD

Some users lists

http://forums.octoz.org/viewtopic.php?p=2241
- drivers for modems with octoz distribution
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/hwdb-devel/2004-June/000004.html
- existing list of resource I only found today ! 20050226 :-( I could have saved time for review, well anyway it was worth making my mind too ;-)
- there's an existing tarball (to be found...)
http://linuxfr.org/2003/06/08/12771.html [fr]
- petition for wifi driver (I do not like petition)
https://linuxfr.org/~FredL/25917.html [fr]
- see comments : possibility to give a note to the hardware

Potential legal or PR problems

From http://soulsound.net/ under Legal Stuff :

http://members.iinet.net.au/~zenaan/zenaan/fs-legal.txt

respecting standards is the goal, avoiding Trademark Infringment is a compulsory step : ask for authorization first, then respect all agreements obtained
the current purpose is to reuse existing lists, which may not be infringing the "central reference" of this non-profit corporation : it can be seen as "yet another available tool"

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1537217 see how to move from closed source to Free Software (NDA, coding style, ...)

broken links

Those ones seem to have disappeared :/ perhap check http://web.archive.org to find relevant pages

http://linuxdevices.com/directory/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/directory/directory.gif
- does not seem maintained ? most updates are in 2002
- the map is a good idea (should have a date of last update by category)
http://www.vendorwatch.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
- list of friendly / unfriendly vendors
- interesting to find real initiatives to provide firmware with appropriate licensing + documentation for developers
- discontinued ? :/ since May 2007 ?
http://www.open-hardware.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhardware/
- to check for documentation and programs available
- seems dead since 2002
http://paul.hahn.name/Articles/InstallRepDir/hpsummary/document_view
http://web.archive.org/web/20060215001720/http://paul.hahn.name/Articles/InstallRepDir/hpsummary/document_view
- pretty display of hardware included in a laptop
- Functionality Device Software Status Effort Required

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