Platform Linux

Algemene informatie

Link directories

Databases

Documentatie

Diverse drivers

Interfaces

Infrarood verbindingen

Firewire/IEEE1394/i-Link

I2C bus

Parallele poort randapparatuur

PCMCIA kaarten

SCSI randapparatuur

USB randapparatuur

Voeding

Functies

Multimedia

Spraaksynthese

Telefonie

Apparaten

Opslagapparaten

Printers

Digitale camera’s

Videocamera’s en webcams

Scanners

Grafische kaarten

Geluidskaarten

Muziek spelers

TV- en radiokaarten

DVD decoder kaarten

Netwerkkaarten

WLAN kaarten

Modems

Laptops

Link directories

DMOZ Open Directory Project, Linux Hardware Support section. Vele honderden links in 70 categorieën.

Dezelfde directory is bij Google te vinden.

Loads of Linux Links, hardware section. Enkele honderden links in 24 categorieën.

Links in de categorieën Hardware support, Multiple drivers, Display, Video, TV and DVD, Audio, Network & Internet, Printer & Scanner, USB & Webcams and Miscellaneous.

Woven Goods for Linux - Hardware

This Linux Hardware Page lists Complete Systems and Hardware Components which are supported by Linux.
De pagina heeft links naar alle belangrijkse hardware leveranciers.

Databases

Compatiblelinux.org

Welcome to widest and most universal catalog of Linux compatible devices.
CompatibleLinux.org lets you know the degree of Linux compatibility of most hardware products available on the market. Thanks to CompatibleLinux.org., you can make your hardware purchases with better judgment and quality and operating assurances, regardless of whether you have already chosen to work with Linux technology or plan to do so in the future..

LinuxHardware.net

LinuxHardware.net was created to help Linux users find information about other users’ Linux systems and experiences with specific hardware.
Er zijn uitgebreide zoek- en browsemogelijkheden. Er is een speciale Driverbase voor hardware drivers.

Linux Compatible heeft lijsten van applicaties, games en hardware waarin wordt aangegeven of ze volledig, gedeeltelijk dan wel niet werken onder Linux. Dit alles is gebaseerd op rapporten van lezers. Voorzover nodig wordt aangegeven waar drivers kunnen worden gedownload.

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. Fortunately, at this point in time, there is far, far more hardware that works without any problems with Linux, so this site aims to make Linux users aware of hardware to avoid (or if you want to be famous, hardware to write drivers for).

With our Component DataBase (CDB) it’s easy to determine wether some hardware will be supported under SuSE Linux or not. Simply specify the name of your component and/or the name of the vendor and/or a hardware category in the search form.
You can find information about some specific hardware components in our support datebase.

Resource for information about hardware on Red Hat Linux. With browsable and searchable hardware list, and links to general hardware resources

Our hardware database allows you to check the compatibility of your hardware with the Mandriva Linux operating system. The certified hardware has the highest level of compatibility.
Please note that the hardware database is constantly being fed and does not include absolutely all the hardware available nowadays.

Documentatie

LinuxHardware.org

LinuxHardware.org is devoted to bringing the Linux community reliable and up-to-date information on the latest in the computer hardware forum. This site aims to provide reviews, news, and how-to’s that are centered around Linux and devoted to the opensource movement. This site also will highlight hardware manufacturers that see Linux as an important market and not only say that they are going to provide information and/or drivers but actually do produce results.
Reviews: hard drive, handheld, memory, motherboard, networking, sound card, system, video card.
Other topics: 3Dfx, AMD, HOW-TO’s, Intel, News, NVidia, USB.

As the Linux operating system become more powerful and more popular, users are benefiting from a wide variety of hardware options.

• Complete Systems - pre-installed with Linux and available with a wide variety of options for home and business use
• Hardware Components - companies that offer Linux drivers for their products.
• Laptops - hints and tips for installing Linux on a laptop or notebook computer.
• PDAs/Palmtops and handhelds - list of companies that sell PDAs running Linux and links to guides on how to install Linux on those PDAs that don’t ship with Linux.

This page is composed mainly of personal guides that we have written ourselves. For most of the newer users, the regular HOWTO’s can be somewhat unhelpful. To help with that situation, we have made our own guides in an easy-to-follow format.

Guides are available for, among others: ATI Rage 128, Cable Modem, IDE CD-RW Setup, Internal IDE Zip drive, ADSL alternate guide, Hard drive tweaking, 3Com/USR 5687-03 Modem, Unix CD-writer compatibility list, ADSL HOWTO, Printer HOWTO, bttv guide (for BT848 video capture card).

The Linux HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs are detailed „how to” documents on specific subjects.

HOWTO’s met betrekking tot hardware staan hier. Onderwerpen zijn onder meer:
General, Platforms, Video Cards, CPUs / Architectures, CD-ROM / DVD-ROM Drives, Optical Disks, Keyboard and Console, Digital Cameras, Graphic Tablets, Diskettes, Hard Disks, Jaz and ZIP Drives, Mice, Modems, SCSI, Serial Ports, Sound Cards, Tape Drives, Touchscreens, UPS, Wireless

Heel wat van de HOWTO’s en mini-HOWTO’s zijn vertaald. Kijk op nl.linux.org. Er staan ook van oorsprong Nederlandse HOWTO’s over onder meer Casema kabelmodem, Soundblaster, USB muis, X11 en modelines.

What JustLinux and its many forum users have created is a new form of documentation for new and experienced Linux users who are looking for help from other users who have been there before. Instead of having to perform heavy research with the difficult to read ‘man pages’and the voluminous HOWTO files, our concept is to take unique, personal, and concise content and serve that to the average Linux user.

Help File topics can span over everything that entails the Linux experience. Voor wat betreft hardware zijn dat Audio hardware, Hardware, Modems, Networks, Soundcards en X Window.

Diverse drivers

This website contains information on where to find Linux drivers for a variety of Creative products. It has information about soundcard support, webcam support, Nomad support and other support.

Linux Drivers for

• Belkin F5U011 USB Ethernet adaptor
• Konica (Intel YC76) USB webcam
• PCMCIA MTD Memory cards

Infrarood verbindingen

IrDA[TM] (Infrared Data Association) is an industry standard for infrared wireless communication. Most laptops sold today are equipped with an IrDA compliant infrared transceiver, which enables you to communicate with devices such as printers, modems, fax, LAN, and other laptops. The overall goal of this project is to make an implementation of the IrDA standards specifications for the Linux kernel. The code is licensed under the GNU Public licence (GPL) and is now included in Linux-2.2.x and 2.4.x kernel series.

LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found here. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety of other hardware. An up-to-date list of all supported devices and the status of the according drivers is available here.

Firewire/IEEE1394/i-Link

IEEE 1394 is a standard defining a high speed serial bus. This bus is also named FireWire by Apple or i.Link by Sony. All these names refer to the same thing, but the neutral term IEEE 1394 (or just 1394) is used on these web pages and in the sources.
If you have 1394 hardware you can now access it under Linux. The supported chipsets are Texas Instruments PCILynx/PCILynx2 and OHCI compliant chips (produced by various companies). Not supported are the proprietary Sony chipset found in various Vaio systems or the Adaptec AIC-5800.
Supported Linux versions are 2.2 through 2.6. The subsystem has been included with the standard Linux kernel sources since version 2.3.40. The subsystem is also distributed as a patch for adding it to Linux kernel version 2.2.

The IEEE 1394 drivers for Linux are still labeled „experimental”, and they change frequently. On this page, we give the latest information about working with the different kernel versions.

I2C bus

The IC-Bus is a simple 2-wire bus that allows micro-controllers and computers to connect to specialized IC’s like videotext-decoders, DTMF generators, and many others. There is also a wide range of other IC-bus chips that offer a more wide-range application like ad/da converters, switches, digital potentiometers et. al. Most of the frame grabber and TV tuner cards on the market use the bus, as another example.

Parallele poort randapparatuur

Many external peripheral devices are available in versions that connect to a personal computer’s parallel printer port. Over the last couple of years, much work has gone into developing drivers so that these devices can be used with the Linux operating system. If you have a parallel port peripheral and would like to see if a Linux driver is available, this is the place to look.

PCMCIA kaarten

Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA support package. It includes a set of loadable kernel modules that implement a version of the PCMCIA 2.1 Card Services applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards, and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand. It supports „hot swapping” of PCMCIA cards, so cards can be inserted and ejected at any time.

The current package supports many ethernet cards, modems and serial cards, several SCSI adapters, most ATA/IDE devices, and some SRAM and FLASH memory cards. All the common PCMCIA controllers are supported, so it should run on just about all Linux-capable laptops.

SCSI randapparatuur

Tools for hotplugging SCSI devices.
You want to turn on the scanner or another scsi-device after linux and the scsi driver already is loaded?
You want to turn off the scanner or another scsi-device while linux is running?
Here are some tools that help.

Are you puzzled by the way Linux assigns device nodes to SCSI devices?
Do you have a lot of SCSI devices, but don’t have them switched on all of the time?
Do you want to use a SCSI ID larger than 7 for one of your wide SCSI disks, but have an ZIP drive on 5, which is not always connected?
You need an alternative way of specifying disks, then. For this you may use the scsidev utility, or devfs.

USB randapparatuur

Home of the Linux USB Project. This web site was created to serve as a central point of information for USB support under Linux.

This document is an early draft of a guide to using the USB sub-system under Linux. This document is matched to Linux kernel revision 2.3.99pre6. Some of this stuff is outright guesswork, especially the lesser known and more expensive devices.
Deze gids is voor het laatst ge-update in 2000, dus niet meer helemaal bij de tijd.

Overview of Linux USB devices and drivers.

Voeding

ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on a file (/proc/acpi/event) and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin.

Opslagapparaten.

Moederbord chipsets van ATI, Intel, Nvidia, SiS, ULi en VIA worden veelal wel ondersteund, zeker als ze al wat langer op de markt zijn. Chipsets van Broadcom, Marvell, Highpoint, Promise en Silicon-Image worden deels alleen rudimentair of met closed source drivers ondersteund. Ook hier geldt: hoe ouder hoe beter (tot op zekere hoogte natuurlijk).

RAID controllers worden niet door de Linux kernel, maar alleen met het aparte programma dmraid ondersteund. Bij installatie van Linux wordt dmraid echter nog niet gebruikt. Dat dit wel mogelijk is bewijst gen2dmraid, een speciale Gentoo live-CD met ondersteuning voor RAID. Ongetwijfeld zal ondersteuning van RAID bij installatie t.z.t. ook in de gangbare Linux distributies worden opgenomen.

Serial ATA (SATA) chipsets - Linux support status, with links to drivers for supported chipsets, including those with RAID controllers. Linux kernels have two ATA („IDE”) driver sets:

• „drivers/ide”: This is the traditional ATA driver set. Contrary to popular belief, it includes low-level drivers for many common SATA chipsets. Optionally, on top of drivers/ide block-device (generic mass storage access) drivers, one can load drivers to provide software-level suport for BIOS services enabling various types of manufacturer-specific software RAID (called „fakeraid”).
• „libata”: This is the newer ATA driver set for selected SATA chipsets only, leveraging the kernel’s well-tested SCSI layer.

Hardware RAID cards have drivers outside these two collections.

This Serial ATA (SATA) Linux status report applies to the latest SATA driver release, found in kernels 2.4.32 and 2.6.15-rcX. It has sections for Hardware support, Software support and Vendor support.

Dmraid (Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool) discovers, activates, deactivates and displays properties of software RAID sets (eg, ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions.

BIOS RAID support on Linux 2.6.x with dmraid. What does this site provide?

• Gentoo based LiveCD with dmraid-1.0.0-rc8 support
• This site provides a script to build dmraid into an initial ramdisk image. To boot from the array (without using a LiveCD or non-raid root partition), you can use the „dmraidinitrd” script to create an initial ramdisk image. Dmraidinitrd will compile dmraid and make an early boot environment able to run dmraid, mount the a partition on a raid array and lauch /sbin/init from it.
• A patch for Lilo to support easy installation on BIOS raids.

Printers

CUPS (het Common UNIX Printing System) is tegenwoordig het belangrijkste afdruksysteem voor Linux. Het zet een printopdracht om in het PostScript formaat dat vervolgens met Ghostscript en bijbehorende drivers wordt vertaald naar een formaat dat de printer begrijpt. Dè printer database voor Linux is LinuxPrinting.org. Hij bevat meer dan 1750 printers, waarvan meer dan 90% dank zij zo’n 250 beschikbare drivers onder Linux min of meer werkt. We kunnen de volgende printers onderscheiden:

• Inktjet- en fotoprinters. De belangrijkste drivers zijn Gutenprint (voorheen Gimp-Print) en Hplib (voorheen hpijs en hpoj). Hplib is een open source project van HP zelf dat de meeste HP printers ondersteunt. Gutenprint biedt drivers voor printers van Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony en Olympus en voor PCL printers. In het bijzonder die voor Epson printers zijn van goede kwaliteit. Epson zelf levert bovendien een aantal bedrijfseigen drivers voor recente modellen. De afdrukkwaliteit is voor HP en Epson printers goed, maar niet altijd zo goed als in Windows. Canon heeft enkele zowel open- als closed-source drivers voor oudere modellen, en ook Lexmark biedt voor enkele modellen bedrijfseigen drivers. Voor veel andere printers van deze merken en voor veel printers van Dell, Kodak, Olympus, Polaroid, Samsung, Sony en Tally zijn geen drivers beschikbaar.
• Laserprinters. De vaak wat duurdere Postscript compatibele printers worden in Linux prima ondersteund. Ook printers die met PCL (Printer Command Language) werken worden min of meer goed ondersteund. Voor GDI (Windows Graphical Device Interface) geldt dat echter niet. Enkele fabrikanten zoals Brother, Epson, Lexmark en Samsung bieden voor een aantal modellen Linux echter drivers aan. HP ondersteunt een aantal van zijn actuele laser printers met zijn open source driver Hplib.
• Multifunctionele apparaten met zowel print-, scan- als fax faciliteiten. Die van HP worden weer het best ondersteund, die van Epson werken deels ook met de Gutenberg en SANE drivers of met de bedrijfseigen Epson drivers. Brother biedt voor enkele apparaten closed-source drivers. De fax werkt veelal niet onder Linux.

Algemeen geldt dat de door fabrikanten aangeboden bedrijfseigen closed-source drivers lastig te installeren en aan de praat te krijgen zijn. De Duitse firma TurboPrint levert tegen een prijs van circa €30 voor veel printers van Canon, Epson en HP en enkele van Brother commerciele drivers, die veelal een betere afdrukkwaliteit geven dan de open-source drivers.

The Common UNIX Printing System („CUPS”), developed by Easy Software Products is a cross-platform printing solution for all UNIX environments. It is based on the „Internet Printing Protocol” and provides complete printing services to most PostScript and raster printers. CUPS is provided under the GNU GPL.

The CUPS distribution only provides sample drivers for Dymo, Epson, HP, and Okidata printers. If you need drivers for other printers, or want commercial- quality printer drivers, please visit our ESP Print Pro page for information on our commercial printing solutions. ESP Print Pro supports thousands of printers and includes graphical interfaces to CUPS.

This site contains a number of resources to help you with your free software printing problems, including the Printing HOWTO, a support database, a project list, printer vendor scorecards, Foomatic, and more.

Foomatic is a database-driven system for integrating free software printer drivers with common spoolers under Unix. It supports CUPS, LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PPR, PDQ, CPS, and direct printing with every free software printer driver known to us and every printer known to work with these drivers.
Foomatic ships in whole or in part in Mandrake >= 7.2 (full Foomatic from 8.1 on), Red Hat >= 7.1, Conectiva >= 8.0, Debian, SuSE, and probably other distributions.

The Omni printer driver provides support for over 450 printers using the Ghostscript framework. In addition, it provides a model for dynamically loading printer drivers, creating new devices by editing device description files, and simplifies new printer driver development by allowing for the subclassing of previous device features.
Here is a list of all supported printers.

The open source project Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-Print) delivers high quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, and PCL printers for use with Ghostscript, CUPS, Foomatic, and the Gimp. They recommend CUPS (the Common UNIX Printing System) for the easiest setup.
Here is a list of supported printers.

TurboPrint is a high-quality printer driver system for Linux by ZEDOnet Gmbh. It is built on existing standards (lpr or CUPS printer spooler, ghostscript interpreter for Postscript) thus achieving easy integration and maximum compatibility with existing applications.
A private license for the full version costs EUR 24,95. You can download a free, somewhat limited, edition to try TurboPrint.
Turboprint includes drivers for almost every Canon, Epson & HP and many Brother printers. A list of supported printers is here.

Brother is now developing drivers which are designed to work on Linux distributions, Redhat, Mandriva(Mandrake), SuSE, Debian and FedoraCore. We have developed two types of driver: LPR drivers and CUPS drivers. Brother will provide updated information about Brother’s Linux capabilities via this web site. We recommend you bookmark this site and return to it at a later date to check on the status of these new drivers and any new developments from Brother.

Linux drivers voor EPSON apparaten, waaronder:

• inktjet printers: Stylus, Stylus Color en Stylus Photo (verscheidene modellen), en ME1.
• laser printers: EPL en AcuLaser (verscheidene modellen, zowel zwart/wit als kleur).
• alles-in-één apparaten: Stylus CX en Stylus Photo RX (diverse modellen).

HP has developed solutions for printing with HP inkjet printers in Linux. The drivers and support resources for the HP Linux Inkjet Driver Project are available on this site. The HP driver project provides printing support for more than 300 printer models, including, DeskJet, OfficeJet, Photosmart, Business Inkjet and some LaserJet.

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language. A PostScript interpreter usually takes as input a set of graphics commands. The output is usually a page bitmap which is then sent to an output device such as a printer or display. PostScript is embedded in many printers.
On this page you will find a list of Ghostscript printer devices and the printers with which they are compatible.

PPA (Printing Performance Architecture) is a closed, proprietary protocol developed by Hewlett Packard for a short-lived series of DeskJet printers. In essence, the PPA protocol moves the low-level processing of the data to the host computer rather than the printer. This allows for a low-cost (to produce) printer with a small amount of memory and computing power. However, in practice the printer was often as expensive as more capable printers and HP has since discontinued the use of PPA in favour of returning to PCL3e in their latest USB-based printers.
This project is a testament to open source persistence to develop a workable solution for a proprietary platform despite the original manufacturer being extremely unhelpful.

Digitale camera’s

Een deel van de digitale camera’s is zonder problemen via USB toegankelijk als opslagapparaat. Veel andere camera’s werken met het Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) en kunnen met programma’s als digiKam en Gphoto2 worden gebruikt. Bedrijfseigen protocollen worden alleen door verscheidene oudere camera’s toegepast. Sommige daarvan kunnen niettemin toch onder Linux worden gebruikt met Gphoto2. Linux kan via Dcraw ook omgaan met de RAW bestandsformaten van een aantal professionele camera’s.

Digital camera support on UNIX system is not simple. Most if not all of the manufacturers don’t give any attention to non Windows (and MacOS) systems. Most of them don’t even provide the needed documentation to write proper support for their camera. And with the increasing number of models, it begins to be a real tower of babel. Luckily, these days, there seems to be two trends with major camera vendors when it comes to communication protocols: PTP and USB Mass Storage. However, many cheap (think less than 1MPix and less than 150 USD or 150 EUR) cameras still don’t follow that trend and are likely to use another protocol. I’ll try to explain how to find out if youe camera may work or not under a UNIX system. Don’t worry, I won’t forget serial cameras.

digiKam is a simple digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a „snap”. The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images.

gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable ready to use set of digital camera software application for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world. It supports nearly 400 cameras.
gPhoto2 runs on a large range of UNIX-like operating system, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. gPhoto is provided by major Linux distribution like Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, etc.
gPhoto2 is freely available and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Welcome to TWiki.DPLinux. This site is a non exhaustive collection of resources for Linux users who are also digital photographers.
This site is a wiki web, based on a open source software called twiki. That means that you can change (learn how) almost any page on this site. The idea is that if you are aware of any information that belongs to this site and is not here already, you can just go ahead and edit it in. Your contributions are invited and gratefully acknowledged but please follow some simple criteria.

Dcraw is a program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system, especially Linux. When used skillfully it produces better quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor. Dcraw has made it far easier for developers to support a wide range of digital cameras in their applications.

Videocamera’s en webcams

This page summarize the uncompressed-video cameras available with IEEE1394 interfaces (aka Firewire). There are NO camcorders here. Uncompressed video cameras are mostly used for scientific, industrial, microscopy, webcam and photography applications.
Some cameras are compliant with the IIDC specifications wich is a good thing because standard APIs, programs and GUIs exist for them. Under Linux, these cameras are the only one openly supported, thanks to libdc1394, the control library, and Coriander, the GUI. It is strongly advised to Linux users to buy a IIDC-compliant camera. Under Windows, most manufacturers provide a proprietary API.

Welcome to the Video for Linux resources page. Here you will find links to programs and information about this API which actually handles more than just video these days. Video sources include TV cards and quickcams, but there are also audio sources like radio cards.
U vindt hier links naar drivers voor verscheidene typen webcams.

This website contains information on where to find Linux drivers for a variety of Creative products.

This is a linux driver for webcams based on a chipset by Konica. This chipset is used in the Intel YC76 and should work with any USB webcam that has vendor/product code 0x04c8, 0x0720.

Welcome to the third-party drivers page for the Logitech QuickCam. Russel Nelson has put this together so that all the information on third-party drivers for the Logitech QuickCam is available from one place. This site exists primarily for developers who are developing for platforms other than Windows or Macintosh since Logitech directly supports these Operating Systems through the drivers and software they make available with the QuickCam.
Here you will find drivers for the following operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD, and Plan9.

This document was written to assist the reader in setting up and configuring a webcam, digital camera, or other video device in the Linux operating system. It outlines how to enable the necessary kernel and/or software support and various frame-grabber applications that can be used to access your device. It does not discuss the differences in graphic and video formats, the features and/or capabilities of particular devices, or the encoding or conversion of video formats.

Scanners

Het opensource project SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is voor Linux de belangrijkste toegangspoort tot scanners. Circa 160 scanners worden volledig ondersteund, en nog eens 300 worden goed maar niet volledig ondersteund. Het commerciele VueScan biedt voor circa $50,- toegang tot meer dan 400 deels niet of niet volledig door SANE ondersteunde scanners (en ondersteunt 185 RAW bestandsformaten van digitale camera’s). Desondanks zijn er voor veel recente scanners helaas geen Linux drivers beschikbaar. Alleen Epson biedt eigen Linux drivers voor een aantal van zijn actuele scanners.

SANE stands for „Scanner Access Now Easy” and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). Supported scanners can be found here.

XSane is a graphical scanning frontend. It uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners. This means that XSane does not support any scanners itself. XSane is designed for acquiring images with scanners (there are other devices like cameras and videodevices supported by SANE, but XSane is not designed for that purpose). You can scan to file, do a photocopy, create a fax, create and send a mail and start XSane from the GIMP as gimp plug in.

Photographers, home users, scanning services and corporations around the world use VueScan for a wide range of scanning needs.Download VueScan now and see how it improves your scans. VueScan gives you improved color accuracy and color balance, increases your productivity and saves you money: VueScan can make your existing scanner work as well as a brand new scanner. VueScan is continuously upgraded to support most high quality scanners and is quick and easy to install.

De software is gratis. Bij betaling van $49,95 voor de Standard Edition of $89,95 voor de Professional Edition krijgt u een serienummer dat er na invoer voor zorgt dat afbeeldingen niet meer worden gewatermerkt. Er zijn versies voor Linux, Windows, MacOS 9 and MacOS X.

Linux drivers voor EPSON apparaten, waaronder:

• scanners: Perfection (verscheidene modellen), Expression (enkele modellen) en GT (enkele modellen).
• alles-in-één apparaten: Stylus CX en Stylus Photo RX (diverse modellen).

The purpose of this page is to provide a central point where you can easily find out what Parallel Port scanners work under Linux and SANE, and perhaps more importantly which ones don’t.

The purpose of this page is to provide a central point where you can easily find out what USB scanners work under Linux and SANE, and perhaps more importantly which ones don’t.

Clara OCR is a free (GPL) OCR for systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g. most flavours of Unix). The development platform of Clara OCR is 32-bit Intel running GNU/Linux.
Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books. Clara OCR development started in 1999 and we’re approaching production quality.

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers. GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

Grafische kaarten

Vrijwel alle grafische kaarten ondersteunen de VESA modi en kunnen dan ook met de vesa driver worden aangestuurd. Ook met het framebuffer device (fbdev) zijn ze veelal wel aan de praat te krijgen. Om ook van de extra mogelijkheden van een kaart, zoals meer videomodi, versnelling, 3D etc., gebruik te kunnen maken is een speciale driver vereist. De X.Org Foundation voorziet in gespecialiseerde open source drivers voor veel van de bekende grafische kaarten.

Bovendien leveren ATI en Nvidia voor hun actuele grafische kaarten eigen closed source drivers. De gangbare distributies, SUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu en Debian stellen de Nvidia drivers in hun software repositories ter beschikking. Het installatieprogramma voor de ATI driver maakt aangepaste pakketten voor SUSE, Ubuntu en Debian, en Fedora heeft de driver in zijn software repository klaar staan. Ook enkele andere fabrikanten, in het bijzonder Intel, bieden eigen drivers aan.

De Linux drivers van Nvidia bieden doorgaans dezelfde kwaliteit als de Windows drivers. Van de Linux drivers van ATI kan dat helaas niet worden gezegd. Ze zijn van beduidend mindere kwaliteit en verschijnen veel later dan de Windows drivers, waarbij bovendien nog komt dat ATI er geen enkele ondersteuning voor biedt.

Documentation for the X Window System Version 11 Release 6.9 and 7.0 (X11R6.9/X11R7.0) by The X.Org Foundation.

X11R6.9 is the ninth and final full release in the X11R6 series, and X11R7.0 is the first release in the new X11R7 series. The 6.9 version is a new release that includes additional hardware support, functional enhancements and bug fixes. The 7.0 version is built from the same source code as the 6.9 so it contains the same additional hardware support, functional enhancements and bug fixes; however, it has been split into logical modules that can be developed, built and maintained separately, but still fit together coherently into the larger source code base as they have in the 6.9 tree. Specific release enhancements can be viewed in the Release Notes.

Most modern PC video hardware is supported in both releases, and most PC video hardware that isn’t supported explicitly can be used with the „vesa” driver. The Release Notes has a table showing the drivers provided with X11R6.9 and X11R7.0, and links to related documentation.

Documentation for the current version of XFree86[tm] (now 4.5.0) by The XFree86 Project. One of the documents is a list of video and input drivers in this version of XFree86, with links to more information about the drivers.

In verband met problemen met de nieuwe licentie van XFree86 zijn de meeste Linux distributies inmiddels overgegaan op het X Window Systeem van de X.Org Foundation.

Display Drivers are available for the following Linux/Product configurations: RADEON 8500 series and higher, FireGL Series, Motherboards with ATI Graphics, Notebooks with ATI Graphics, for Linux x86 as well as x86_64.

Here you can download nVIDIA’s proprietary Linux and Unix drivers for nVIDIA graphics cards.

DirectFB is a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware. DirectFB adds graphical power to embedded systems and sets a new standard for graphics under Linux.
Here is a list of modules (drivers) and their development status.

Welcome to the Video for Linux resources page. Here you will find links to programs and information about this API which actually handles more than just video these days. Video sources include TV cards and quickcams, but there are also audio sources like radio cards.
U vindt hier o.m. links naar drivers voor 3D grafische kaarten.

Geluidskaarten

Drivers voor geluidskaarten worden ontwikkeld door het ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) project. De meeste actuele geluidskaarten worden ondersteund, zij het dat er uitzonderingen zijn, zoals de Creative X-Fi serie. Sommige kaarten hebben firmware bestanden nodig, die bij ALSA ter download klaar staan.

Veel moderne chipsets ondersteunen het recente HDA (High Definition Audio) met de bijbehorende codecs. HDA wordt door ALSA echter nog niet goed ondersteund, reden waarom het verstandig is voorlopig bij de AC97 codec te blijven.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:

1. Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer soundcards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
2. Fully modularized sound drivers.
3. SMP and thread-safe design.
4. User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
5. Support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

ALSA is released under the GPL (GNU General Public license) and the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).OSS is the Open Sound System.

Open Sound System (OSS) van 4Front Technologies is the first attempt in unifying the digital audio architecture for UNIX. OSS is a set of device drivers that provide a uniform API across all the major UNIX architectures. It supports Sound Blaster or Windows Sound System compatible sound cards which can be plugged into any UNIX workstation supporting the ISA or PCI bus architecture. OSS also supports workstations with on-board digital audio hardware.
Sound devices supported by the Open Sound System can be found here.

OSS/Linux is a commercial implementation of the Linux sound drivers that are packaged with the Linux kernel. OSS/Linux is 100% compatible with the „freeware” drivers (now known as OSS/Free). OSS/Linux has several advantages over the free drivers. There are two licenses: normal ($30,-) and budget ($20,-).

Resources for Sound Card and Drivers on Linux: primary resources, cards and chipsets, laptop configurations, PC speaker, PCMCIA audio/MIDI, serial port MIDI, USB audio/MIDI, and various.

This website contains information on where to find Linux drivers for a variety of Creative products.

Muziek spelers

Ruim de helft van de beschikbare MP3 spelers is via USB toegankelijk als een gewoon opslagapparaat. De andere helft werkt met bedrijfseigen protocollen, waaronder met name de iPod van Apple, en de Nomad- en Zen-spelers van Creative.Verscheidene, maar zeker niet alle, modellen zijn onder Linux toegankelijk met de volgende software.

gtkpod is a platform independent Graphical User Interface for Apple’s iPod using GTK2. It supports the first to fifth Generation including the iPod mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod Video.

The IPODSLAVE ioslave enables KIO aware linux apps like konqueror or amarok to access the Music stored on an Apple iPod. It further allows you to organize playlists and uploading tracks. To have access to your iPod mount it (some distros do this automatically when the iPod gets plugged in) and open the URL „ipod:/”. You’ll get a list of 3 directories: Artists, Playlists and Utilities. You can copy songs from an Album to a playlist, move tracks between playlists or albums. You can also add new mp3 files to the collection.

Gnomad2 is a GTK+ music manager and swiss army knife for the Creative Labs NOMAD and Zen range plus the Dell DJ devices using the Portable Digital Entertainment (PDE) protocol.

This page shows you how to use an iPod with Linux. It’s aimed at Linux purists, i.e. people who don’t want to have to use a Mac or MS Windows-based PC to get going, nor to have to use Wine or any Windows software.
Also, I (the writer) do not address any of the non-music features (games, calender, etc) in the latest iPods — I regard these as feature creep. Buy a PDA if you want that.

TV- en radiokaarten

TV kaarten worden goed ondersteund, maar het is daarbij wel belangrijk om een zo nieuw mogelijke Linux kernel te hebben. Oudere kernels zullen allerlei nieuwere TV kaarten niet ondersteunen.

Welcome to the Video for Linux resources page. Here you will find links to programs and information about this API which actually handles more than just video these days. Video sources include TV cards and quickcams, but there are also audio sources like radio cards.
U vindt hier links naar drivers voor verscheidene typen TV- en radiokaarten.

Television with Linux: The LinuxTV project develops and maintains the DVB driver subsystem which is included in the Linux 2.6.x kernel. The Linux kernel and the LinuxTV CVS include a fair number of drivers for commonly available PCI cards and USB devices, but the DVB subsystem core is also targeted towards Linux based set-top-boxes. This site has three wiki’s:

• DVB Wiki: the ultimate resource regarding all questions about Video, TV and DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) support on Linux, free DVB software and cool projects.
• VDR Wiki with information about Video Disk Recorder support.
• V4L Wiki: the resource of reference for users and developers of the Video4Linux framework.

The IVTV project develops a kernel driver for Linux and a driver for X11 for hardware based on Conexant’s CX23415/CX23416 codec chip such as the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 models and other supported hardware. The project’s name is derived from the chip’s original naming as iTVC15.

DVD decoder kaarten

The Dxr2 Resource Center is Center is a community focus point for the Creative Dxr2 DVD decoder card. Creative Dxr2 drivers for Linux, and other platforms are actively being developed, as well as a multitude of other programs, drivers, documentation, etc. The Website is the home of the Creative Dxr2 drivers (dxr2-driver). Included is a script for compiling the Dxr2 drivers, as well as various components (dxr2install), a Dxr2 plugin for the XINE media player (xine-plugin), and other projects related to the Dxr2 decoder card.

This project is an attempt to provide the Linux community with kernel drivers for two hugely popular DVD playback cards, namely the DXR3 from Creative Labs and the Hollywood Plus from Sigma Designs.
So far we have got enough info to make a device driver that is capable of decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams and generate video on the TV-out and VGA Overlay connectors. The driver can also play audio through the analog or spdif digital connectors.
The project has also expanded to encompass writing plugins for three of the more popular Linux dvd programs, MPlayer, LiViD’s OMS and Xine.

Netwerkkaarten

Netwerkkaarten voor ethernet worden vrijwel allemaal zonder problemen ondersteund.

This is the primary site for information on and updates to the Linux Ethernet device drivers. Linux has driver support for all current production, mass-market PCI Ethernet and Fast Ethernet chips as of June 2000. While a few specific boards are not supported because e.g. of unique transceiver interfaces, they are rare exceptions. Most common Gigabit Ethernet adapters are supported as well.

ATM support for Linux is currently in pre-alpha stage. There is an experimental release, which supports raw ATM connections (PVCs and SVCs), IP over ATM, LAN emulation, MPOA, Arequipa, and some other goodies.

Site of the author of the ARCnet (as opposed to Ethernet) driver for Linux, and here is my latest attempt at providing support for the thing.

The LTRP has been established to provide a central point for all issues relating to using Token Ring under Linux.

WLAN kaarten

Voor WLAN hardware zijn er heel veel verschillende chips, waarvan maar een klein deel zonder meer werkt onder Linux. De WLAN hardware van notebooks op basis van de door Intel ontwikkelde standaard Centrino werkt normaliter zonder problemen. Voor WLAN hardware van Intel zijn er open source drivers (ipw2100 en ipw2200), die vaak nog moeten worden aangevuld met handmatig te downloaden en te installeren firmware. Linux heeft standaard nog de beschikking over enkele andere drivers, waarvan de belangrijkste prism54 en HostAP zijn. Daarnaast zijn er voor een aantal chipsets externe open source drivers, met name MadWifi en rt2x00.

Voor veel WLAN chips zijn er helaas geen Linux drivers. Vaak is het mogelijk met behulp van de open source Ndiswrapper een Windows NDIS driver te gebruiken. Toch staan hiermee vaak lang niet alle mogelijkheiden van de hardware ter beschikking. Linuxant biedt een commerciele driver met dezelfde functie als Ndiswrapper, waarmee de mogelijkheden van de hardware (waarschijnlijk) beter worden uitgebuit.

The Linux Wireless LAN Howto is an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard since 1996, and built with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world. Here you find not only the Linux Wireless LAN Howto, but also links to wireless Linux software, other Linux wireless howtos and help, and more…

The goal of the Linux-WLAN(tm) Project is to develop a complete, standards based, wireless LAN system using the GNU/Linux operating system. What differentiates this project from the Linux wireless extensions and other Linux wireless projects is that everything is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard.

There are hundreds of wireless cards that work with Linux, we have highlighted a few that we like best, but you should be able to get any of the below cards, plug them in and be on the Internet in seconds. All testing was performed on systems running Plug&Play-equipped LindowsOS 4.0.

Some vendors refuse to release specs or even a binary linux-driver for their WLAN cards. This project tries to solve this problem by making a kernel module that can load Ndis (windows network driver API) drivers. We’re not trying to implement all of the Ndis API but rather implement the functions needed to get these unsupported cards working.
The driver works quite well on many builtin cards as well as PCMCIA (Cardbus only) cards. License: GPL.

Linuxant strives to bring the very latest Wireless LAN technology to the Linux community. DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems.
DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved.
We have attempted to reduce the inconvenience of binary-only drivers by separating the proprietary code from the operating-system specific code. The latter is provided in source form, allowing users to install the drivers under any supported version (2.4 or later) of the Linux kernel.
A license costs $19,95. A free 30-day trial license is available.

Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for Linux, an open source 802.11b driver for the ipw2100. This project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection mini PCI adapter. This project (IPW2100) is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).

Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Driver for Linux, an open source 802.11a/bg driver for the ipw2200 and ipw2915. This project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI adapters. This project (IPW2200) is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).

Linux Driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism Duette / Prism Indigo Chipsets,
Prism54 is now part of the stock kernel, 2.6.5. The version of the driver in the stock kernel is prism54 1.1. Work for 1.2 (currently in cvs) includes the attempt to complete WPA, and WDS support.
Work for a prism54 usb driver has started.

Host AP is a Linux driver for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil’s Prism2/2.5/3 chipset. The driver supports a so called Host AP mode, i.e., it takes care of IEEE 802.11 management functions in the host computer and acts as an access point. This does not require any special firmware for the wireless LAN card. In addition to this, it has support for normal station operations in BSS and possible also in IBSS. WPA and RSN (WPA2) is supported when used with accompanied tools, wpa_supplicant (WPA/RSN Supplicant) and hostapd (WPA/RSN Authenticator). All these programs have been designed for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems.

This is the Open Source project site for MadWifi - a Linux kernel driver for Wireless LAN chipsets from Atheros. Here we host our code repository, bug tracking system and documentation.

This project is a development effort to create a stable and feature rich Linux driver for wireless 802.11b and 802.11g cards that are based on the Ralink rt2400 and rt2500 chipsets.

Home of the OpenSource Linux Driver for Atmel AT76C5XXx-based Wireless Devices.

A driver for the Broadcom 43xx wireless chip. A list of devices using this chip can be found here. Broadcom never released specification about these chips. You can find more details about the specification we are using at http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/, more general information here.

Modems

DSL modems en routers die via een ethernetkaart werken geven onder Linux geen problemen. Dat is anders voor USB modems. Voor Speedtouch USB modems is een open source driver beschikbaar. Daarnaast biedt AVM voor enkele van zijn modellen closed source drivers.

Externe seriële modems werken onder Linux vrijwel allemaal zonder problemen. Dat geldt echter niet voor modems die via USB werken, en voor interne modems. De website Linmodems.org geeft een overzicht van beschikbare drivers en er door ondersteunde apparaten. Voor veel modems in notebooks zijn de drivers van Smart Link geschikt. Linuxant biedt tegen betaling drivers voor de Conexant chip aan. ISDN wordt onder Linux prima ondersteund. Daarnaast biedt AVM bedrijfseigen closed source drivers voor zijn Fritz producten.

ADSL4Linux is een project om alle vormen van ADSL makkelijk te installeren onder Linux. Het eerste produkt van dit project (MXStream4Linux) is een goed voorbeeld hiervan. Uiteraard betekend stilstand achteruitgang en zullen wij er alles aan doen om zoveel mogelijk nieuwe technologieen in de produkten te verwerken.

This is the homepage for the Open-Source linux kernel module for the Speed Touch USB ADSL modem from Alcatel’s modem branch, now part of Thomson Multimedia. Alcatel/Thomson provides a binary management daemon that needs to be used in conjunction with this driver. A full installation manual can be found at HOWTO page.

This site gives the status of a GPL driver project for the ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem originally manufactured by Alcatel (the Alcatel’s modem branch is now part of Thomson Multimedia). This driver is for GNU/Linux and *BSD operating systems.
Though this driver is nowadays the main solution for using a Speedtouch USB with free OSes, Thomson and Alcatel do not support officialy (nor unofficialy) this driver in any way.

Page about Linux winmodem support.

[Winmodems are not modems]. The purpose of this page is to identify consumer-grade modems systematically and to note compatibility with Linux as reported by you, the users.

So-called Winmodems, host-based, HCF-, HSP-, HSF-, controllerless, host-controlled, and soft modems require vendor-supplied software to do the work of proper hardware modems. The sale of these devices for x86-based PCs is becoming increasingly popular among retailers and OEMs because of their lower cost.

This site has a Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base.

Linuxant’s goal is to make complete, high-quality drivers for Conexant chipsets available to the Linux community.
Due to intellectual-property/patent issues beyond our control, the source code of some components like modem modulations cannot be released; however, we have attempted to reduce the inconvenience of binary-only modules by separating the proprietary code from the operating-system specific code. The latter is provided in source form, allowing users to install the drivers under any supported version of the Linux kernel.
Our generic Linux drivers for most Conexant HCF and HSF chipsets support as many configurations and features as possible.
For Conexant modem drivers, a license token is needed to generate a license key to activate the full version for each device on an single machine. The price of a license is $14,95.

Linuxant’s drivers were not free software, but you could download them free of charge. Recently, Linuxant changed this. Now, you only get a crippled version for free, if you want the real drivers, you have to pay. You can download the last free-of-charge versions here.

Smart Link Ltd. Is a leading provider of software-based communication solutions for Internet enabled appliances.
Smart Link provides the most complete portfolio of V.90/V.92 modem chipset solutions on a wide range of PCs, notebooks and Internet appliances such as: Set-top boxes and MFPs (Multi Functional Printers).
Ga voor Linux drivers naar Driver download → LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR END USERS, klik op YES, en kies Linux drivers.

On this page you’ll find Linux driver (sources, binary packages) and documentation for so called Winmodems with Lucent Apollo (ISA) and Mars (PCI) chipsets. Lucent AMR modems are not supported by this driver. The core communications code of these kits is the property of Agere Systems, Inc. (formerly known as Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies). The driver was developed and is maintained by Soumyendu Sarkar at Agere Systems, the open source parts were modified by Mark Spieth, Marvin Stodolsky and Christoph Hebeisen to implement some additional features.

Here you will find the PCTel modem driver for Via, Asus, CM8x, SiS, PCT and AMR based modems. For some modems, it seems to be stable now, for others, support is still broken.

Isdn4linux is a set of kernel modules which are part of the Linux kernel. It consists of the main module isdn and the actual hardware driver that control some specific card. In addition, the package isdn4k-utils contains utilities to make use of ISDN specific features. Generally, isdn4linux can control ISDN cards that are connected to the PC’s ISA or PCI bus. Also a few PCMCIA cards are supported. However, isdn4linux can not make use of any devices connected via a serial or parallel interface (which are called ‘terminal adaptors’), with only one exception: the Creatix/Teles S0 box for the parallel port.

AVM Linux Service Portal: Service, Info & Download für alle Linux Anwender. Hier finden Sie eind Übersicht der unterstützten AVM-Controller.

Laptops

Laptops en notebooks zijn voor Linux notoire zorgenkindjes, vooral naarmate ze nieuwer zijn. Als het al lukt om ze aan de praat te krijgen functioneren vaak allerlei onderdelen niet, zoals WLAN, ACPI (a.g.v. fouten in de BIOS), suspend modi en toetsen met speciale functies. Er zijn verschillende websites die informatie bieden over de compatibiliteit van laptops en notebooks met Linux. Bij een mogelijke aankoop op grond van positieve rapporten moet er nauwkeurig op worden gelet dat de specificaties kloppen. Zelfs op het oog kleine verschillen kunnen er al toe leiden dat een bepaalde functie onder Linux niet werkt. Met Centrino (een door Intel ontwikkelde standaard) notebooks worden vaak goede resultaten verkregen. Verder werken de betere modellen van IBM/Lenovo en enkele van HP over het algemeen goed.

Linux On Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Cell Phones.
TuxMobil is dedicated to Linux On Mobile Computers. It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information, HOWTOs, and FAQs about installing and running Linux, BSD, Solaris and other UniXes on laptops, notebooks, PDAs, mobile cellular phones, portable music players, wearables and other mobile computer devices.

This is an index of information and documentation of interest to those who now use or are considering using the Linux operating system on a notebook or laptop computer. It can also be reached via URL linux-laptop.net.

Information about Linux on Specific Laptops.

Multimedia

Welcome to the Video for Linux resources page. Here you will find links to programs and information about this API which actually handles more than just video these days. Video sources include TV cards and quickcams, but there are also audio sources like radio cards.

Informatie en links over multimedia onder Linux (Duits). De site heeft de volgende rubrieken: audio, video & TV, communicatie, beeldbewerking en HOWTO’s.

Spraaksynthese

The purpose of BLINUX is to improve usability of the LINUX operating system for the user who is blind.On of the subjects is the Emacspeak User Interface. It is a speech interface that allows blind and visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet.

Speech synthesis for Linux. Speechd implements a device /dev/speech. Any text written to /dev/speech will be spoken aload. Required are the Festival or the rsynth speech synthesis package.

Telefonie

The VOIP Wiki is a reference guide to all things VOIP, software, hardware, service providers, reviews, configurations, standards, tips & tricks and everything else related to voice over IP networks, IP telephony and Internet Telephony.

See the link to Asterisk, a complete PBX in software, running on Linux. Asterisk does voice over IP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

The LIPZ4 is a soft phone that runs on the Linux operating system. By using SIP for the call control, the LIPZ4 is compatible with other soft phones, IP phones, and IP phone systems or networks. When used with a speaker or headset and a microphone on your PC, the LIPZ4 is a cost efficient and convenient way to provide telephone communication. Free download!