No, neither one worked. It just appeared to recognize the USB ports with no problem, but if you plugged anything into them, they didn't work.
On Thursday 25 August 2005 11:51 am, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:27 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > > I have to say that it is not quite as easy as putting in the Knoppix > > CD. We > > did that with a laptop I purchased not too long ago and it detected > > the USB > > ports just fine. However, my son, who is no novice at this, could > > never get > > them to function nor could a guru who was posting online about it. He > > was a > > kernel hacker sort. It turned out the bios software in this > > particular > > machine was the problem. It worked with an older bios but the newer > > machines > > were sold with a different bios that appears on first blush to work > > with the > > USB ports, but does not work and the company refused to give us a copy > > of the > > bios software. > > [KSB] Very curious. If the live CD works, and you install Linux from it > to the hard disk, you are getting exactly the same drivers. With USB in > particular, there are few variations, and it really shouldn't matter > (driver issues are most likely with modems, video and WiFi chips, and > occasionally network cards). Maybe I can talk offline with Raymond so > that I can understand what the issue was. > > In any case, with laptops, I recommend not being the first on the block > to buy a new model, and to check at tuxmobil.org. > > -- Bhaskar > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
