Re: "supported" hardware

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:15, David Blomber wrote:
> 	Annoyed at vendors saying supported by Linux-and not listing the little
> details.
> 
> 	Here is one from this week.  IBM server with a ServeRAID 6M card
> (Adaptec controller chip)  everything says supported in Linux.  When
> trying to Install from the Red hat 9.0 CD I find that the drivers are
> not included and that I cannot install as I can't see the Hard Disk. 
> IBM is kind enough to give me the source code but it is only for the
> 2.4.20 Kernel.  Usually this would not be too bad-but then I find that
> the customer wants this for Red Hat Advance Server 2.1 (a 2.4.9 kernel).
>  
> 	In fact the Only Linux install that picks up the ServeRAID 6M card by
> default is SuSE 8.2 (out of the few I have tried).
> 
> Dave Blomberg
> 
You should be able to find a driver disk image for it on IBM's website
(might be in the source tarball). You could also try Red Hat's errata
page for RHEL2.1, where there are driver disks for numerous bits of
recent hardware (takes some searching for but they are there...)

Andy