Re: Winmodem?

It's always a roll of the dice with Linux.

I have a computer with USB 1.0, added a USB 2.0 card.
Linux RH 9.0 picked up the card more simply than windows would have.

Automagically configured a 4-button trackball, non-typical
keyboard *and* stand-alone numeric keypad without a whisper
of a problem.

*but*

Printers are a fr|**|ng nightware. If the printer is in the
list, installing it is a no-brainer, which is great because
I have to re-install my printer every time I reboot the
computer, and no one can tell me why.

Oh, and how about installing a *new* printer?
Well, it seems you have to install the latest gimp-print
package with numerous dependencies problems. It's ridiculous
to have to do that. I think it is a bad, bad idea to make
cups the end-all controlling factor of printing.

Option, yes.

I could rant more, but I would be stealing Stepen's thunder.

- tim -
" You gotta be an idiot to royaly screw things up..
  ... or you could just use a computer."
  - alaskus curmudgeous (StarDate 0.0.0.0) -

* Stephen King <sking@chartercollege.edu> [040729 11:01]:
> OK...I'm rapidly coming to believe that it is easier to make a laptop
> levitate than to get the Linux desktop (Xandros 2.0, in this case) to
> recognize the winmodem that came installed in it. I've gone to the
> Xandros support site and several posts say "Oh, yeah, it works
> great...just load this driver..." (different drivers each time) and I've
> loaded the drivers, but still it's coming up as a no. Since I'm not
> looking forward to explaining to non-technical clients that the 'win' in
> winmodem means Linux doesn't like it...anybody have any ideas? The
> really painful part is that it's a dual-boot machine between Xandros and
> XP...modem works beautifully in XP. Grrrr....
>
> Thanks to the person who suggested the 'man cdrecord'; gave me some good
> info but didn't work. The clients are enjoying their Windows machines'
> ability to write directly to a CD as though it were a floppy. The
> Windows app is called InCD. My experiences with cdrecord have resulted
> in long command lines, having to know which track the file is on, and
> corrupting the CD in the end. I did find a udf writing app from
> sourceforge that I'll try today...wish me luck.
>
> Oh, yeah, and more experience (experience being what you got when you
> didn't get what you wanted)...never ever install a distro without the
> "Developer Tools" (i.e., gcc) no matter what level user is gonna be
> running it. Invariably you need a driver, a Novell client, or an
> upgrade to a program which is only available in source. Then you have
> to find gcc, which AFAIK is also only available in source, and so you
> wish you had a compiled compiler to compile the compiler. Bad root. No
> cookie. =20
>
> Stephen King
> Instructor, Information Technology
> Charter College
> 2221 E. Northern Lights Suite 120
> Anchorage, AK 99508
> (907) 777-1370
> =20
> "I don't want Linux to work like Windows. I just want it to work, like
> Windows."
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