Re: [lm-sensors] aftermarket PCI or ISA monitoring board?

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:53:11AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:48:02 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Thank you all for the suggestions.  I'm out of my element here, as I don't
> > participate in this sector of the computer/electronics marketplace.  Is there an
> > online retailer or wholesaler where I can actually add one of these devices to a
> > cart, and check out?  Or at least see descriptions and pricing info without
> > having to speak to a sales rep, lying to him or her, just to minimize my price
> > on what is really a one time purchase?  Do any of them in the U.S. regularly
> > sell in single quantities, with little or no salesperson hassles?
> 
> I don't know, sorry, I'm not much in this sector either. The few sample
> chips I have here, were sent to me for free by the manufacturers, but
> that was generally in exchange of me writing or fixing Linux support
> for the chip in question. I don't know where you can buy them...
> electronics shop maybe?
> 
> In France, I see that Conrad sells some thermal sensors, Dallas DS1620,
> DS1621, DS1820 and DS1821, but that's about it. Very limited choice :(
> 
Mouser has pretty much everything in the US, including some eval boards.
Some eval boards are also available directly from manufacturers, though
I don't know if they are selling to end users (Maxim has a note on their 
Web site indicating that they only sell to manufacturers).

I sometimes get samples for free by stating that I plan to writing a Linux driver
for the chip. Of course one should only do that if the idea _is_ to write a driver.

Guenter

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