Logitech V20 Laptop Speaker

[henio]

I bought V20 Laptop Speaker from Logitech. While Hardware installation
windows XP Home SP2 requests a driver. It should not - because it
shall be Plug and Play, but it does. Request to Logitech remains
without answer. Who nows a solution? Where might I get the requested
driver? It is very sad, that Logitech takes the money without
delivering the promised item and than does not even answer. Who can
help?
Thank You
Henio

 

[DanS]

I bought V20 Laptop Speaker from Logitech. While Hardware installation
windows XP Home SP2 requests a driver. It should not - because it
shall be Plug and Play, but it does. Request to Logitech remains
without answer. Who nows a solution? Where might I get the requested
driver? It is very sad, that Logitech takes the money without
delivering the promised item and than does not even answer. Who can
help?
Thank You
Henio

Plug-n-Play does NOT mean it doesn't require drivers. It just means that
you don't have to manually configure the device with push-on jumpers, dip-
switches, or a standalone config-utility (mostly DOS).

 

[P.Jayant]

The Logitech Mouse I bought (made in China for Asian users) also came
without an installation disk but I managed to get the drivers from Logitech
web-site. The Mouse is now recognized as Logitech-compatible. Obviously
Logitech does not take responsibility for its offspring born outside U S A.

P. Jayant

 

[lurkswithin]

heniowrote:
I bought V20 Laptop Speaker from Logitech. While Hardware
installation

windows XP Home SP2 requests a driver. It should not - because it
shall be Plug and Play, but it does. Request to Logitech remains
without answer. Who nows a solution? Where might I get the requested
driver? It is very sad, that Logitech takes the money without
delivering the promised item and than does not even answer. Who can
help?
Thank You
Henio

Once the speakers are plugged into the usb port you will have to
navigate to the control panel and
select" sounds and audio devices"
select the audio tab
in the "sound playback" area you will need to change the
default speakers to the logiteck USB speakers. and apply and ok out.

you may also wish to look here at what is said about the speakers that
you purchased.

http://www.everythingusb.com/logitech_v20_laptop_speakers.html

 

[Lindsay]

I don't think that was what they meant. Windows was requesting a driver from
an external source when it should have had one built in (which is what Plug
'n Play is).

 

[Bob I]

Sorry, but you are incorrect. "Plug and Play" implies the the drivers
have been INSTALLED prior to the hardware being put in place. Those
drivers did NOT necessarily come with the operating system.

 

[Lindsay]

That's what I said isn't it? The hardware manufacturer does not supply any
drivers because the drivers needed were shipped with the specified OS. THAT
is Plug 'n Play. It is the only way the manufacturer can be sure you
DEFINITELY have the drivers.

 

[henio]

At least something, You made me happy. Thank You all.
Greetings
Henio

 

[DanS]

That's what I said isn't it? The hardware manufacturer does not supply
any drivers because the drivers needed were shipped with the specified
OS. THAT is Plug 'n Play. It is the only way the manufacturer can be
sure you DEFINITELY have the drivers.

No that is not what you said.

An excerpt from a M$ webpage describing the ISA PnP specification v1....
(a little old, but the only one I could find there)

---------------------------------------------------
This specification presents a mechanism to provide automatic
configuration capability to Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) cards
thus enabling full Plug and Play in the PC. The essential elements of
Plug and Play ISA are:
•
Isolate the ISA card
•
Read the card's resource data
•
Identify the card and configure its resources
•
Locate a driver for the card

The mechanism has the flexibility to allow cards to come up either
inactive or active. Cards required to participate in the boot process
typically come up active. Information that identifies the card and
describes the system resources which are requested by the card, such as
memory and I/O space, DMA channel, and interrupt level supported is
maintained in a standard read-only format. This allows the Plug and Play
software to identify system resource usage, arbitrate conflicts, and,
optionally, re-configure a card. This process is done automatically at
every hard reset of the system. Plug and Play ISA cards will inter-
operate with standard ISA cards in a fully compatible manner.
----------------------------------------------------

This does not mean that M$ provided the drivers. It means that Windows
can automatically identify and assign resources for the device, which
also mean the resources can be changed through Windows. The last step of
the PnP operation is locating the drivers. IF, one is already there,
either supplied by M$ or by the hardware mfg, it will use that one. If
not, it will ask you to supply them.

Also, the only true way a hardware manufacturer can be sure you have the
drivers is to supply them to you with the hardware device you buy from
them.

On the other hand UPnP may be a little different, but I'm not up on that.

 

[Lindsay]

A bit out-dated, don't you think?

Try this:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861732695

 

[DanS]

A bit out-dated, don't you think?

Try this:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.asp
x?refid=1861732695

That is what I said, a little old.

But the definition in the link you gave is not precise either.

'Technical standard for peripherals: a technical standard that allows a
peripheral device such as a printer or DVD drive to be connected to a
computer and to function immediately without alteration of the system's
configuration files'

No matter what, an alteration of the system configuration files is
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for the device to operate, whether or not it is
automatically installed by existing drivers already in the system, or by
providing a path to the required drivers by the user.

If there is no change in configuration of the system, how will the new
device work ?

The link I provided was much more technically correct, albeit outdated,
than the one you posted.

 

[Lindsay]

The information you found is out-dated, not because it's incorrect, but
because the meaning has changed, simply because just about all the hardware
you will buy nowadays is Plug And Play. Therefor, rather than PnP having any
meaning to the hardware configuration, it's to do with driver installation.
Not altering the system files means the user doesn't have to change
anything.

This is why the OP can't get a driver for his hardware. It's PnP, so XP
would have shipped with the driver. If you look around, you will find that
hardware marked as PnP does not come with any drivers, whereas hardware that
does have drivers with it, is not marked as PnP.