[Scottish] Good Live Disk for ...

[Colin McKinnon]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 20:37, William Anderson wrote:
> Colin McKinnon wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > erk. Not a USB one? (they don't even work very well with MS-Windows). It
> > is possible to get them to work with Linux but last time I looked it
> > seemed a bit of a struggle. IIRC SuSE is better than some in this dept,
> > but a ethernet connected device will save a lot of pain.
>
> IIRC the Intel USB stuff never did get open sourced and Intel didn't
> release binary-only drivers nVidia-stylee.  Shame.

....but allegedly it's possible to get the alcatel ones which used to be 
"popular" working with Linux. Just not very easy and requires a bit of 
guessing and experimentation.

C.