Plug and Play on LINUX

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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 )
 
<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
 
<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:62ac9c24-4231-43d2-8f87-c21f3239f877@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> 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.

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Xandros
 
davidlam.hk@gmail.com wrote:

> 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!
 
<davidlam.hk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
 
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
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: csdcs@tlerma.com
 
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