Plug and Play on LINUX

[Guest davidlam.hk@gmail.com]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are

recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS

PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure

if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.

( I don't want to use the XP version )

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Plug and Play on LINUX

 

 

<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:62ac9c24-4231-43d2-8f87-c21f3239f877@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are

> recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS

> PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure

> if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.

> ( I don't want to use the XP version )

 

Wouldn't this be a question for a Linux newsgroup?

[Guest Xandros]

Re: Plug and Play on LINUX

 

 

<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:62ac9c24-4231-43d2-8f87-c21f3239f877@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are

> recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS

> PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure

> if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.

> ( I don't want to use the XP version )

 

This is a question for a Linux support group.

 

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Xandros

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Plug and Play on LINUX

 

 

 

davidlam.hk@gmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are

> recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS

> PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure

> if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.

> ( I don't want to use the XP version )

 

Then don't ask in a XP group!

[Guest Gordon]

Re: Plug and Play on LINUX

 

<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:62ac9c24-4231-43d2-8f87-c21f3239f877@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> Does anyone know if peripherals like printers

 

A printer would have to be installed, just like on XP.

> and DVD drives are recognised automatically and installed

 

Internal ot external? Internal will be immediately "recognised and

installed"

> when connected to a LINUX OS

> PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure

> if the Linux version is compatible with my external device.

 

Go here to find out:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/printers.html

[Guest C.Joseph S. Drayton]

Re: Plug and Play on LINUX

 

Hi David,

 

Linux device and peripheral support is somewhat limited. There are some

devices that are plug-n-play, but there are a lot more that aren't.

 

I am using Ubuntu 7.04 because of the 8 distros of Linux that I tried

it was the only one that recognized my laptop's (Broadcomm) built in

wi-fi. I tried upgrading to the new version of Ubuntu (Gutsy), and it

did not recognize my Broadcomm card. To make matters worse, when I

tried to rollback to 7.04 my Broadcomm card was still unrecognized.

 

Fortuantely I did an image backup of my Ubuntu partition so ended up

just doing a restore from the backup.

 

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C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

 

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