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Installation version 8.5 includes the 2.4.18-10 custom Linux kernel based on the
RedHat 7.3 distribution along with updated packages as reported by www.insecure.org
and www.redhat.com.
Following is a list of hardware that has built in or
modular support with our installation:
CPU
Intel based CPU or compatible x86, Pentium, AMD CPU - single and multiple
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Hard Drives
Most standard MFM/RLL/IDE/ATA-2 drives
Including IDE Raid controllers
Promise software RAID Fasttrak (tm)
Highpoint 370 software RAID
SCSI
Most standard SCSI drives plus 3ware ATA-RAID
SCSI adapter cards and chipset driver support
7000 FASST
ACARD
Adaptec AHA152x/2825
Adaptec AHA1542
Adaptec AHA1740
Adaptec AACRAID
Adaptec AIC7xxx
Adaptec I20 RAID
AdvanSys
Always IN2000
AM53/79C974 PCI
AMI MegaRAID
BusLogic
Compaq Fibre Channel 64-bit/66Mhz HBA
DMX3191D
DTC3180/3280
EATA ISA/EISA/PCI (DPT and generic EATA/DMA-compliant boards)
EATA-DMA
EATA-PIO
Future Domain 16xx SCSI/AHA2920A
Intel/ICP RAID controller
Generic NCR4380/53c400
IBM ServeRAID
Initio 9100U(W)
Initio INI-A100U2W
IOMEGA parallel port - ppa
IOMEGA - imm
NCR43c7,8xx
NCR53c406a
NCR53C8xx
SYM53C8xx
SYM53C8xx Version 2
PAS16
PCI2000
PCI2220i
PSI240i
Qlogic FAS
Qlogic ISP
Qlogic ISP FC
Qlogic QLA 1280
Qlogic experimental 2100/2200
Qlogic experimental 2300
Single Driver Qlogic FC/SCSI
Seagate ST-02 and TMC-8xx
Simple 53c710 (Compaq, NCR machines)
Symbios 53c416
Tekram DC390(T) and Am53/79C974
Trantor T128/T128F/T228
UltraStor 14F/34F
UltraStor SCSI
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CD-ROM (top)
ATAPI, IDE, SCSI most models & brands supported
SCSI emulation support for IDE CD-ROM R/W (menu selectable when installing)
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Tape Drives (top)
IDE/ATAPI/SCSI (requires additional backup software)
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Network Adapters (top)
Note: Many brands use the same chipsets as the models mentioned
here. Our installation auto-detect menu option for PCI cards
will usually find the appropriate compatible driver even if your
adapter is not shown here.
Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support
Sun GEM support
3COM cards
3c501 "EtherLink" support
3c503 "EtherLink II" support
3c505 "EtherLink Plus" support
3c507 "EtherLink 16" support (EXPERIMENTAL)
3c509/3c529 (MCA)/3c579 "EtherLink III" support
3c515 ISA "Fast EtherLink"
3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
Intel
PRO/100
PRO/1000
Western Digital/SMC cards
WD80*3 support
SMC Ultra support
SMC 9194 support
Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards
NI5010 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
NI5210 support
NI6510 support
AT1700/1720 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support
HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support
Other ISA cards
Cabletron E21xx support
EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support
EtherExpress 16 support
EtherExpressPro support/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support
HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support
HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support
ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support
NE2000/NE1000 support
EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
AMD PCnet32 PCI support
Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support
Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet
CS89x0 support
DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support
Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
Digi Intl. RightSwitch SE-X support
Davicom DM910x/DM980x support
EtherExpressPro/100 support
Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support
National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support
NatSemi workaround for high errors
PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)
RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)
RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (old driver)
SMC EtherPower II
Sundance Alta support
TI ThunderLAN support
VIA Rhine support
Winbond W89c840 Ethernet support
Pocket and portable adapters
AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support
D-Link DE600 pocket adapter support
D-Link DE620 pocket adapter support
Additional 1000 Mbit Network Adapters:
Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support
D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet support
National Semiconduct DP83820 support
Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support
Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)
SysKonnect SK-98xx support
Broadcom Tigon3 support
Intel PRO/1000
Digital DEFEA and DEFPA adapter support
SysKonnect FDDI PCI support
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)
AT&T WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS support
Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support
Aironet 4500/4800 series adapters
Aironet 4500/4800 ISA/PCI/PNP/365 support
Aironet 4500/4800 PNP support
Aironet 4500/4800 PCI support
Aironet 4500/4800 ISA broken support (EXPERIMENTAL)
Aironet 4500/4800 I365 broken support (EXPERIMENTAL)
Aironet 4500/4800 PROC interface
Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards
Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)
Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)
Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support
Fibre Channel driver support
Interphase 5526 Tachyon chipset based adapter support
General Instruments Surfboard 1000
USB Pegasus 10/100
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USB Devices and USB Driver Support (top)
Note: The EHCI HCD driver for USB 2.0 should not be considered ready to use. We have tested several
types, makes, and models of 2.0 devices and found it
to be unreliable. You may have better results but consider
this driver to be EXPERIMENTAL until the next stable release of the
operating system which is supposed to have much better USB support.
Also: We have tested a number of makes and models of USB
scanners and have not had much success because of poor resolution
and/or unreliable or incomplete support. If you require
scanner support you should only attempt SCSI scanners. They
cost more but are faster, have better resolution and tend to better
supported by the SCSI drivers. Example: HP ScanJet 5P SCSI works
GREAT!
EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
UHCI (Intel PIIX4, VIA, ...) support
UHCI Alternate Driver (JE) support
OHCI (Compaq, iMacs, OPTi, SiS, ALi, ...) support
--- USB Device Class drivers
USB Audio support
EMI 2|6 USB Audio interface support
USB Bluetooth support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Mass Storage support
Datafab MDCFE-B Compact Flash Reader support
Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support
ISD-200 USB/ATA Bridge support
Microtech CompactFlash/SmartMedia support
HP CD-Writer 82xx support
SanDisk SDDR-09 (and other SmartMedia) support
Lexar Jumpshot Compact Flash Reader
USB Modem (CDC ACM) support
USB Printer support
--- USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support
Wacom Intuos/Graphire tablet support
--- USB Imaging devices
USB Kodak DC-2xx Camera support
USB Mustek MDC800 Digital Camera support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Scanner support
Microtek X6USB scanner support
HP53xx USB scanner support (EXPERIMENTAL)
--- USB Multimedia devices
USB IBM (Xirlink) C-it Camera support
USB OV511 Camera support
USB Philips Cameras
USB SE401 Camera support
USB STV680 (Pencam) Camera support
USB 3com HomeConnect (aka vicam) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
D-Link USB FM radio support (EXPERIMENTAL)
DABUSB driver
--- USB Network adaptors
USB Pegasus/Pegasus-II based ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
We like the Belkin 10/100 F5D5050 adapter using the Pegasus driver!
USB Realtek RTL8150 based ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB KLSI KL5USB101-based ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB CATC NetMate-based Ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Communication Class Ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB-to-USB Networking cable device support (EXPERIMENTAL)
--- USB port drivers
USS720 parport driver
USB Serial Converter support
USB Generic Serial Driver
USB Belkin and Peracom Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Digi International AccelePort USB Serial Driver
USB Empeg empeg-car Mark I/II Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Handspring Visor / Palm m50x / Sony Clie Driver
USB Compaq iPAQ / HP Jornada Driver
USB IR Dongle Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Keyspan PDA Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Keyspan USA-xxx Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Keyspan USA-28XA Firmware
USB Keyspan USA-28XB Firmware
USB MCT Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB KL5KUSB105 (Palmconnect) Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com chipcard reader (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Xircom / Entregra Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB ZyXEL omni.net LCD Plus Driver (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Diamond Rio500 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB Auerswald ISDN support (EXPERIMENTAL)
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Printers & Scanners (top)
Most Serial, Parallel, Network and Remote Printers are
supported. Our software relies on the network workstations to
use the correct drivers for any configured printer. Our
software should be used to manage all of your network and remote
printer print queues.
USB printers are semi-supported but in our tests, are not yet
reliable enough.
USB, parallel and serial scanners are semi-supported but in our
tests, are not yet reliable enough.
SCSI scanners seem to work quite well and have decent support for
the most popular brands. However, our recommendation is to connect
any scanner needed to a local workstation and use any included
drivers as recommended by the manufacturer.
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Modems (top)
Our installation uses Hylafax for actually sending
and receiving faxes. Hylafax supports most class 1, 2, 2.0 fax
modems. Internal, External, and USB fax modems are supported.
"Winmodems" are not supported. "Linmodems" are
semi-supported but not recommended. You are better off
spending a little extra on a true fax modem which will NOT show
"Controllerless" or "Windows Modem" on the packaging.
We have used the external serial MultiTech MT2834ZDXb and USB
MultiTech MT5634ZBA-USB quite extensively with good results.
The MT2834ZDXb is a class 2 serial modem and does not work quite as
well as the MT5634ZBA-USB modem which is class 1 or 2 (we use them
in class 1 mode).
The Zoom 56K 2985L USB modem seems to be another good choice and
costs less. We have not used this modem as much as the
MutiTech but preliminary results indicate that it will work
equivalent to the MT5634ZBA-USB.
Bear in mind that USB modems and class 1 modems require more
usage of your computer's CPU. Increasing RAM memory and a
faster CPU will allow you to use more of these devices and is
recommended over using semi-supported multi-port serial cards or
multi-modem cards. Our experience is that the drivers for
these cards are incomplete and/or are not as reliable as the USB
modems when used for mass faxing.
Practically all non "Winmodems" work well for dial-in/dial-out
services on servers created with our installation, including USB
modems.
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