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To: ShadowAce

No, there aren’t. I contacted the manufacturers and was told the models she had were not supported in Linux.


44 posted on 03/17/2009 10:13:09 AM PDT by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: stuartcr
I contacted the manufacturers and was told the models she had were not supported in Linux.

There is a difference between "supported by the manufacturer on Linux" and "works with Linux."

The only piece of hardware that I've ever not gotten to run under Linux was an antique TDK 5-disc CDROM changer. It used a proprietary interface (that is, not IDE or SCSI) and while the standard non-ATAPI driver would see one drive, it wouldn't see the others or shuffle the disks.

That said, getting unsupported hardware to work under Linux often isn't worth the effort. It's better to buy hardware that is already known to work out of the box. See your distro's hardware compatibility list.

48 posted on 03/17/2009 10:19:34 AM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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