From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IalVl-0002UU-LM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:02:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8R4pMNK010510; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:51:22 GMT Received: from smtp2.hushmail.com (smtp2.hushmail.com [65.39.178.134]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8R4ictr002283 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:44:39 GMT Received: from smtp2.hushmail.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.hushmail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 74A431701E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:40:38 -0500 From: forgottenwizard To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset Message-ID: <20070927044038.GA29173@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070926212945.GA14473@localhost> <20070926182543.6b3e0d4a@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <1190853825.7659.22.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1190853825.7659.22.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 200a455a-a192-4efe-af47-87dff3e063b9 X-Archives-Hash: fd6d120fea5293542d2295cd49217df4 On 08:43 Thu 27 Sep , W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 > > forgottenwizard wrote: > ... > > > > Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data > > relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) > > Also take the hhhh:hhhh hex number (see 413c:3010 below) that lsusb > spits out, and google that if lsusb itself gives unknown. It basically > specifies the manufacturer and chipset/model. lsbusb -v is also > helpful. > > i.e., > >lsusb > ... > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse > ... > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > All great suggestions, except I'm hoping to see if it might work before I buy it. I really don't like the prospect of spending money on hardware just for things to turn out that it doesn't work in Linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list