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The Linux Incompatibility List is an attempt to catalog and document hardware/peripherals of all kinds that do not work with the Linux operating system, or only work with non-free drivers.

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• Audioudio/Audio Cards)
• Broadband Routers
• Digital Audio Playerslayers)
• Digital Cameras
• Disks and Controllers
• Ethernetards)
• Firewire
• Flash/Media Readers
• Harddisk Backplanes and Enclosures
• Hardware Monitoring
• Input Devicesther gaming input)
• Laptops
• Mobile Phones
• Modems
• Monitors
• Motherboards
• Non-Linear Video Editing
• PDAs
• Printers
• RAID
• Security
• Scanners
• TV-tuners
• USB
• Video
• Webcams
• Wifi

Note: There are other distribution specific and generic lists

• LDP : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html
• RedHat : https://hardware.redhat.com/
• SUSE : http://cdb.suse.de/index.php?LANG=en\_UK
• Mandrake : http://hcl.mandriva.com
• Neat site that shows you what drivers to use with your hardware: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
• Hardware4Linux : http://hardware4linux.info/

Hardware specific:

• Printers: http://linuxprinting.org/
• Laptops: http://linux-laptop.net/
• Mobile Computing: http://tuxmobil.org/
• Soundcards: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=All#matrix
• Scanners: http://www.sane-project.org/
• Modems: http://www.linmodems.org/
• http://start.at/modem/
• USB devices: http://www.linux-usb.org
• IEEE 1394 (Firewire) devices: http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php
• Hardware Monitoring chips: http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/supported.html

Please submit other such lists that you are aware of.