From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:16:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] aftermarket PCI or ISA monitoring board? Message-Id: <20110111171627.GC3542@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: <4D28AA8D.7080902@hardwarefreak.com> In-Reply-To: <4D28AA8D.7080902@hardwarefreak.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors