[ILUG] Mandrake - it works....but why?

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Kevin Philp <kevin at cybercolloids.net>
  | Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:52:59 +0000
  |[ ... ]
  | Are other distro's so sensitive to USB?

 no idea.   but as a point of information, my SuSE 7.3
 (now a SUSE 9.1) system has had no problems at all with
 my system, which has a USB keyboard and a USB mouse,
 a USB printer, and a USB 6-in-1.  (admittedly, none
 of it is exotic USB gear.)

 everything was detected, correctly, on install;
 nothing special was needed during install; and
 it has all worked ever since.

 both the 6-in-1 and the current (new) printer
 were added sometime after SuSE 7.3 was installed;
 everything was present for the SUSE 9.1 install.

 I used (but later discovered I did not need to)
 some vender-supplied software with SuSE 7.3 for
 the old (now dead) printer.  that software caused
 the only USB-related I issues I had:  the software
 didn't install quite correctly (easy fix, a module
 was not being loaded); and the vendor's daemon did
 not handle the printer going off-line (power-off or
 USB unplug), but the work-around was the obvious
 3-step procedure (stop daemon, turn printer on,
 start daemon).   I now use CUPS (and Foomatic, I
 _think_) which work much better!

cheers!
	-blf-
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