[OLPC-devel] Testing LinuxBIOS installation release

Samat Jain samat at laptop.org
Thu Aug 24 13:01:50 EDT 2006


On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:30, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> So, OLPC is going to have to have a 'known good' list for USB hardware, 
> I think. I don't see a way out. I have a 512MB PNY dongle that worked 
> "for a while" on my t41, and works fine on OLPC; a 1GB sandisk that 
> works fine on the laptop, though only with powered hub; same sandisk 
> works fine on OLPC WITHOUT powered hub; and so on.

There had been talk of a USB device compatibility list, similar to 
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/, with some extra fields useful for us (e.g. 
powered hub required or not, etc).

Does interest in this still exist?

Samat



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