On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 18:57, Maxim Eremeev wrote: > Richard S. Crawford wrote: > >Maxim Eremeev said: > >>BTW, why not just give it a try by dual boot installation (I mean > >>Windows and Fedora)? > > > >Dual-booting Windows and FC3 is notoriously problematic. The user would > >do well to read up on the geometry issues that come up before doing a > >dual-boot; as far as I know, the bug is still present in FC3. > > Well, probably, I just did not know about it. Last time I used the dual > boot on FC2. Never had any problem there and did not know that things > had changed so dramatically for FC3 - sorry, then. > > >>>So onto the hardware I am worried about. The first is > >>>my ADSL modem which is a BT Voyager 100, the second my > >>>printer which is an Epson C64, I have a C64 attached to this system here. Works fine. No ink monitoring etc, no fancy Epson Printer Applet, but I hate that on Wondows anyway, always pops up and blocks what I'm doing on the screen. And I print so much I pretty well know almost exactly when the printer is going to run out of ink on me .. normally just 3 or four pages from the end of those 150 pages that I *absolutely HAVE* to get in the post tonight ... and the post goes in 5 minutes. .... and I used the last spare ink cartridge this morning. > >>>though I would be > >>>upgrading to a R200 in the near future. Does anyone > >>>here have any of these and if so did they work? If not > >>>here would I go for drivers for them? > > > >Your ASDL modem shouldn't be an issue, really, since you don't connect to > >it directly; you use a network card to interface with the Internet > >connection that's delivered over the modem. So make sure your network > >card is compatible (hint: it most likely is). > > The problem is that this one is a USB modem... > > >>>I have been incontact with the Epson and British > >>>Telecom (BT) about linux drivers and both came back > >>>with a negative response. > > > >Most printer manufacturers don't bother with creating Linux drivers for > >their products. However, http://linuxprinting.org/ is a goldmine of > >information about printers. You might want to look into CUPS for your > >printer setup; you'll find more information at that site. > > > >Good luck! -- Tony Dietrich ------------- management, n.: The art of getting other people to do all the work.
