On Jan 20, 2012 11:47 AM, "I Close" <ack@???> wrote:
>
> On 20/01/2012 11:41, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know this is a bit off topic, but I thought I would try.
>> I have been given a PCI-Express card on the understanding that I write
>> a Linux driver for it.
>> I am doing the development work for free, because I would like this
>> card to work in Linux, as do many others.
>> The problem is that I do not have a development PC with PCI-Express
slots in it.
>> Is anyone prepared to lend me a PC with a spare PCI-Express slot so
>> that I can do the development work.
>> Once the driver is mostly stable, I can then transfer the card to one
>> of my production PC.
>>
>> The alternative is me searching ebay for a suitable one which will
>> take a long time because "desktop PC pci express" do not work well on
>> ebay.
>
> Do you need the whole box or just a board and chip, psu etc ?
> is it a beefy power consumption card ?
>
The card has a power connection, but it is just a pci-express dvb-s2 card,
so not beefy.
I will have to check the card to be sure if it is a 1x or more.
So just the mb with ram and psu would be ok. No hd needed.
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