SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Misc. Hardware

Appliances, HiFi, Lights, etc:

• pioct (German; allows control of some Pioneer HiFi equipement)

Bar Code Readers, Reading:

• linbar (Serial barcode reader SW)

ISA and EISA:

• drivers/eisa FTP directory
• Writing EISA and ISA Bus Device Drivers

IRQs:

• IBM-PC IRQ info (good table of IRQ info)
• Resolving Linux PCI Interrupt Conflicts (by Donald Becker)
• Introduction to IRQs, DMAs and Base Addresses, 

Parallel Ports:

• External Parallel Port devices and Linux
• Rainbow's Micro Sentinel Ux (copy protection active ^dongle?; Unix compatible; other models)
• IO-Port-Programming mini-HOWTO  Parallel, Serial, and Game Ports.

PCI:

• PCI HOWTO   Information on PCI-architecture compatibility with Linux.
• Resolving Linux PCI Interrupt Conflicts (by Donald Becker)
• scanpci - A program which comes with XFree86 (why?) that dumps info about the current PCI configuration.

PnP; Plug-n-Play; Plug-n-Pray:

• ISA-PnP: Configuring an ISA-PnP card (at S.u.S.E. Support Data Base)
• isapnptools home page

Silencing, Quieting:

• PC Power & Cooling (makes & sells quiet power supplies and fans)
• Silent Systems (sells quiet computer hardware)
• Ask Slashdot: Quieter Computers
• Tips:

  Put fan-speed controllers on your fans. Locate the temperature sensor in the outgoing air stream. This provides a constant temperature inside the enclosure (the fans only get noisy on really hot days), but requires some electrtical skills. I recommend "Wisp W-DC" from http://www.controlres.com (also distributed by ? Allied Electronics or Newark).

  Buy a complete power supply, and specify a quiet ball-bearing fan, from Glitch-Master: this also provides over 0.25 seconds ride-through during power outages. See http://www.glitchmaster.com.

  Switch to an ATX-style enclosure & power supply. The ATX power supply fan is located deeper into the power supply (on the interior surface of the supply, near the CPU), instead of being located on the back wall of the PC enclosure.

USB (Universal Serial Bus):

• USB (canonical site by Iñaky Pérez González)
• USB Developer's Home Page (not Linux-specific)

Thin Servers:

• Netwinder:
  • Corel Computer
  • Netwinder Project (for Corel's NC)
  • Review of Netwinder
• Cobalt Microserver, Inc. and Cobalt Networks, Inc.
• REALM Information Technologies  Linux-based thin server software, with OEM partners.
• Technauts  "thin intranet/Internet servers"; turn-key

Thin Clients, X-terminals; X terminals; Network Computing; Network Computers:

• Axis Communications, Inc.  Has a thin-server device (allows any device to be attached to a network) and management software. Also sells many such peripherals.
• Etherminal J (thin client with Linux, Netscape, etc. in flash memory)
• GraphOn Corp.  Thin-client PC X server with ability to control M$ apps on server.
• Neoware  NCs
• ThinLinux.org  'aimed primarily at developers and users of embeded and "thin" linux systems'
• VNC from ORL Virtual Network Computing from Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab (X-term like?; stateless)
• X-Terminals:
  • The Poor Man's X-Terminal (how to set up a computer as an X-terminal using Linux)
  • Using Linux Instead of an X Emulator  Jul'98 LG
  • Setting up SPARC-Linux as a X terminal with SLXT  Apr'98 LG
  • X Window System Terminals  Apr'98 LG
  • Ask Slashdot: Set Top X terminals?
  • Ask Slashdot: Booting XTerminals

Terminals; Consoles:

• Using HP-48 as a Linux terminal 
• Mac Terminal mini-HOWTO How to use an Apple Macintosh as a serial terminal.
• VGA, SVGA:
  • SVGATextMode  (Uses extra capabilities of video cards on non-X screens.) Sep'97 LG
  • svga.txt - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.

Misc. Sensors:

• Thermometer  By Spiderplant. "A thermometer that connects to your serial port." [LJ ad]
• Environmental Monitoring Station  Cheap. Serial port.
• Adding a tilt (2-axis acceleration) sensor to the PalmPilot  Fast enough for vibration. Device could be ported to regular PCs.

Building a Computer:

• Also see the Hardware page and various other hardware subjects via the home page.
• Building Your Linux Computer Yourself  Jun'97 LG
• Designing a Linux PC (HOWTO)

InfraRed (remote control, etc.):

• LIRC - Linux ^Infrared Remote Control  "allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls"; Control things with your computer or vice versa. (^ir)
• LIRC hardware

:

End of page.