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Appendix B. Hardware Compatibility, Device Driver, and Software Patch Information

One of the challenges that LAN administrators face is ensuring that the adapters they want to use are supported and then finding the latest level of device drivers for these adapters. Another problem they face is trying to find information about known software bugs and their corresponding fixes. This appendix is included to help readers solve these problems.

B.1 Finding Compatibility Information on the World Wide Web

IBM does extensive testing on each new system before it is introduced to ensure that it is compatible with the wide variety of IBM and non-IBM adapters which exist in the marketplace. Recently, this information has been made public and is now maintained and updated on a regular basis on a World Wide Web (WWW) site. The Universal Resource Locator (URL) for this site is:

∙http://www.pc.ibm.com/compat/compat.html

This site has a wealth of valuable information. It contains information by server (for example IBM PC Server 320, IBM PC Server 500, and so on). For each machine, it has reports on:

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LAN adapters

WAN adapters

Peripheral interface adapters

Storage devices

Other devices such as video chip sets

Figure 145 on page 200 shows a sample report on Ethernet LAN adapters tested on the PC Server 320.

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