[penguicon-general] Ubuntu help!

[Jeff Hanson]

On 6/5/07, Greg <greg_b at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> --- Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wireless is a big one.  That can still be thorny depending on what
> > hardware you have.
>
> I'll vouch for that.  I've tried several different distros and couldn't
> get any of them to work with my Wifi.
>
> > Test scanners, drawing tablets, any other USB gadget you may have.
>
> Got trouble here, too.  My Microtek 4850 scanner isn't supported.
>
> Once these two areas are cleared up, I could completely go over to the
> Tux side.

Same thing happens on Windows also.  Some manufacturers don't update
their drivers for existing hardware in order to force you to buy new
hardware.  A friend of mine was using an XP driver for a Belkin
wireless card on Vista beta.  When he upgraded to the final version he
also obtained the latest driver and found that it refused to even
install.  It's obvious there is nothing in the hardware that prevents
it from working but he didn't keep a copy of the old driver.  He
bought a new Belkin kit thus rewarding them for their behavior.

There is a nasty bug in the Ubuntu Feisty  that keeps USB scanners
from working correctly.  Suspend mode support in the kernel turns off
the scanner too quickly so you have to keep it active with
scanbuttond.

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/85488