Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 28, 2004 03:44 AM
Did you try a Knoppix disk? More than likely, if there was a driver for the device (and there are linux drivers available for just about any device you care to name) Knoppix would have recognized and configured the device for you.
I have used Knoppix to troubleshoot why another distribution would not recognize a particular device - and in most instances it was a configuration issue that was easily fixed; the distribution made some assumptions about the scope of things I would do with it. I have yet to find a device in my stable of machines that was not supported by linux when I started digging.
Remember, there are various distributions and they are not all created equal. As mentioned before, Windows has similar problems with various devices - that your (probably) OEM machine company took care of for you by doing the integration work with Windows. With Linux you are your own integrator - and no one distribution will work right out of the box for every piece of hardware - just as windows will not work right out of the box for every piece of hardware.
You should be complaining to Microshaft - ask them why they are locking their OEM partners into their operating system, and preventing them from integrating their hardware with Linux for you?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 28, 2004 03:44 AMI have used Knoppix to troubleshoot why another distribution would not recognize a particular device - and in most instances it was a configuration issue that was easily fixed; the distribution made some assumptions about the scope of things I would do with it. I have yet to find a device in my stable of machines that was not supported by linux when I started digging.
Remember, there are various distributions and they are not all created equal. As mentioned before, Windows has similar problems with various devices - that your (probably) OEM machine company took care of for you by doing the integration work with Windows. With Linux you are your own integrator - and no one distribution will work right out of the box for every piece of hardware - just as windows will not work right out of the box for every piece of hardware.
You should be complaining to Microshaft - ask them why they are locking their OEM partners into their operating system, and preventing them from integrating their hardware with Linux for you?
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