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 <sect2 id="supported-peripherals">
 <title>Peripherals and Other Hardware</title>
<para arch="not-s390">

&arch-kernel; supports a large variety of hardware devices such as mice,
printers, scanners, PCMCIA/CardBus/ExpressCard and USB devices.  However, most of these
devices are not required while installing the system.

</para><para arch="x86">

USB hardware generally works fine. On some very old PC systems some
USB keyboards may require additional configuration (see <xref linkend="hardware-issues"/>).
On modern PCs, USB keyboards and mice work without requiring any
specific configuration.

</para>

<para arch="s390">

Package installations from XPRAM and tape are not supported by this
system.  All packages that you want to install need to be available on a
DASD or over the network using NFS, HTTP or FTP.

</para>
 </sect2>
