So the chip is fully supported. Does that implementation follow 2001 PnP standards?
I’m not whining or spinning I’m pointing out the difference between what we KNOW and what you and the author ASSUME.
Here’s what we know:
He installed a 2001 OS on a 2008 computer with 2008 hardware and there were some devices that XP couldn’t connect to with the generic drivers.
Now here’s the things we don’t know:
If any of that hardware complies with 2001 OS communication layer standards
If any of that hardware complies with 2001 PnP standards
If any XP’s generic drivers could have been forced to work with the hardware
If any other 2001 OS works with that hardware out of the box
You make a lot of assumptions about how it must be MS’s and XP’s fault, which is funny since you claim to have been Windows free since 2 years before XP came out, but they’re all just assumptions. Could the problem be XP? Of course. Could the problem be the hardware? Yup.
Who cares? The chip was fully documented, sufficient for the Linux kernel devs to publish a fully functioning driver back in 2002.
It works in Linux today. It worked in Linux in 2002. It doesn't work in Windows XP, the most widely used Windows version.
You are making a lot of excuses for something that is really straightforward.