Plug and Play on LINUX

[davidlam.hk]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are
recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS
PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure
if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.
( I don't want to use the XP version )

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are
recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS
PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure
if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.
( I don't want to use the XP version )

Wouldn't this be a question for a Linux newsgroup?

 

[Xandros]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are
recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS
PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure
if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.
( I don't want to use the XP version )

This is a question for a Linux support group.

 

[Bob I]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers and DVD drives are
recognised automatically and installed when connected to a LINUX OS
PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure
if the Linux version is compatible with my external device. Thanks.
( I don't want to use the XP version )

Then don't ask in a XP group!

 

[Gordon]

Does anyone know if peripherals like printers

A printer would have to be installed, just like on XP.

and DVD drives are recognised automatically and installed

Internal ot external? Internal will be immediately "recognised and
installed"

when connected to a LINUX OS
PC ? I am thinking of buying the ASUS eee notebook and I am not sure
if the Linux version is compatible with my external device.

Go here to find out:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/printers.html

 

[C.Joseph S. Drayton]

Hi David,

Linux device and peripheral support is somewhat limited. There are some
devices that are plug-n-play, but there are a lot more that aren't.

I am using Ubuntu 7.04 because of the 8 distros of Linux that I tried
it was the only one that recognized my laptop's (Broadcomm) built in
wi-fi. I tried upgrading to the new version of Ubuntu (Gutsy), and it
did not recognize my Broadcomm card. To make matters worse, when I
tried to rollback to 7.04 my Broadcomm card was still unrecognized.

Fortuantely I did an image backup of my Ubuntu partition so ended up
just doing a restore from the backup.

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Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
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