Hi Ged, Kevin is very correct here... BTW, I run RH9 without problems but I use kernel.org kernels and not the RH one. In the past the RH one has had more uptodate patches in older kernels because they seem to backport these quite a lot.
regards, Stephen. On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Ged Haywood wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I'm not trying to start a war here but I am trying to find out what's > > going on. It appears that people have been having better luck under > > some circumstances getting USB devices to work if they are using a > > Debian system than a Linux system. > > But, but, but, Debian *is* a Linux system. Perhaps you meant to say > RedHat, or Mandrake, or Slackware, or something else instead of "Linux" > system???? B^) > > > If anyone out there has experience of using Debian and USB will they > > please speak up now? I'm particularly interested if you have seen > > differences between the performance of Debian and Linux on the same > > hardware. > > Sorry, still using RedHat 9.0 on my new ABit NF7 mb. All my old stuff > (Sharp Zaurus SL550D PDA) works just fine on the new USB 2.0 ports. > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users