Hi everyone. I've got a Compaq Presario 905 and I'm planning on buying a wireless network card and a webcam for it, and of course, I want them to work with Linux. I'm running Debian Woody and the latest stable kernel from kernel.org.
The laptop has an expansion slot on the back of the screen, i.e., on the top of the cover when you close it. This expansion slot can be used for small devices like an internal microphone or a wireless card. I don't know the technical details about this expansion system, I think that internally it has to be a PCI or PCMCIA bus, but I really don't know it for sure. As the laptop has only one PCMCIA slot, I'd like to have an internal card installed on that screen-expansion slot, but I don't know if it is supported in Linux. Anybody else with a Presario laptop has had any experiences with these kind of expansion system? Regarding the webcam, I already have a Logitech Pro 3000 cam which works great in Linux in my desktop machine, but it doesn't work at all on the laptop, *not even in Windows*. I think it's some kind of hw incompatibility between the laptop USB port and the cam. The Compaq technical support staff told me that they've seen this kind of incompatibilities with some laptops and some USB devices, because some USB devices require more power than the (limited) laptop USB port can give to them. So, anybody has a webcam running without problems in their Linux laptop? Which one? Are the Linux drivers really ready for use, or they just work so-so? Any information would be really appreciated. :) Thanks in advance. -- Vicente Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.bisente.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
