Digital Cameras

now beta driver on rdc7tool.sourceforge.net

    1. Note on Kodak file formats

Kodak’s early proprietary .KDC photo format varies from camera to camera. DC-40 / -50′s .KDC may be similar to one used in the DC-120, but at least one Linux-based conversion program can handle only DC-120′s .KDC’s, but not DC-40 or DC-50′s. Perhaps the change of CCD between the DC-40 / -50 & DC-120 generation cameras explains difference.

    1. Cameras that work with a USB filesystem but lack a webcam driver.

Aiptex Smart MegaCam A low-end digital camera and webcam Genius Videocam NB Another low end WebCam by Genius

Compact Disk Read Only Media Drives

The following CDROM drives have been classified as RED BAND, and are not recommended for purchase:

  • Creative 8x CDROM drive, Model CD822 – Will not boot Linux based CDROM disks
  • Mitsumi 8x CDROM drive, Model CRMC-FX810T4 – Will not boot Linux based CDROM disks
  • Mitsumi 32x CDROM drive Model FX320M – Will not boot Linux

based CDROM disks

Broadband Routers

The following devices are classified as YELLOW BAND. Devices classed as YELLOW BAND are considered to be unreliable or do not provide complete functionality and are not recommended for purchase:

Netgear RP614 – This device keeps freezing (To prevent freezing, a workaround has been found which involves configuring the internet domain name server as that of the provider, rather than the address of the Netgear device)

Linksys WRT54G – This device keeps freezing. (It is reported that it is possible to reflash this device with open source based firmware, which may resolve the freezing problem. However, it is unconfirmed whether this fixes the “freezing” problem.) The device does not freezes with the OPEN source DD-WRT firmware, unless you do remote management with https enabled.This firmware also increase the transfer rate of the unit.

BT Home Hub 2.0 – There is a bug in the current versions of the BT Home Hub firmware, which prevents the user from updating the DNS server settings. This has been deliberately implemented by British Telecom for “security reasons”.