8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
1:18 p.m.
Dave:
Some HP devices I have working fine with Linux are:
- HP Deskjet 500: It works fine after more than 11 years of daily printing.
- HP Scanjet 5200C: It is now connected via a USB port. It works fine
as a copier or a scanner.
- HP Officejet V40: HP made drivers for it. HP is now committed to
Linux. HP is making Linux drivers for everything.
- It works fine as a copier and scanner.
- It prints very well both color and B&W.
- It does not work as a fax sender/receiver (from the PC) yet (
Winmodem???). You can send/receive faxes manually.
HP Deskjet 692C: It was printing very well in color and B&W. It is
broken. I sent to a local HP representative to have it fixed... It is
still broken.
I have also been able to see images and videos directly from a HP
digital camera connected to the USB port and mounted as a scsi hard disk.
I also have a 128MB Immation Mini disk ( key disk) that plugs in to the
USB port as a scsi disk also.
Another USB devices: my Palm m130 and a CreativeLabs Webcam.
My headache: The CNR AC97 modem. Works fine with cu and minicom.
Freezes with PPP.
GZS
Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
My thanks to everyone who replied to this subject. Lots of good ideas,
I'll definitely put some of them to use.
Here a few more notes on what I plan to do :
Red Hat (Fedora?) or Mandrake install
totally GUI for the user
Crossover stuff (thanks for the reminders!)
And here's what they have for peripherals :
a scanner, not sure what kind
an HP printer (610C ? 810C ? I'll find out later... )
Things they need to do include :
Web browsing
print from Web (color, b&w)
on-line banking via Web browser (I'm afraid IE may be required,
don't know though)
print from file manager (color, b&w)
operate scanner
basic image editing
Their net connection is DSL through SBC/Yahoo. I don't expect problems
with that, I had the same connectivity at my old
apartment, no problems with various Linux distros.
They don't have games installed, they don't really run any apps beyond
the browser. My only concern is wrt the on-line
banking requirements. Does anyone here do on-line banking via a Linux
browser ?
Best regards,
== dp
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