Well, here's what I've seen; don't know if this will help or not..... Vicente Aguilar wrote: > 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?
It's officially called a "MultiPort" connector. You can get a wireless module for use with it. I believe it's actually a USB connection, though not a USB connector (it wouldn't fit if you did it that way. I use my wireless module quite a bit and it seems to work fine with woody, plus testing, plus the latest linux-wlan-ng kernel module from SourceForge. > 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? I've been using one of the cheap D-Link cameras; the point was to make it work, though, and not take good pictures. I got one of these cameras for US$20 on sale -- not a real good camera (actually, kinda miserable), but it does work. I'd suggest going to the supported hardware list at www.linux-usb.org to see what you can and can't use. > Any information would be really appreciated. :) > > Thanks in advance. > Hope that helps.... -- Ciao, al ---------------------------- Al Stone Linux Systems Division Hewlett-Packard Company Phone: 970-898-0345 Telnet: 898-0345 Fax: 970-898-3804 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
