On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:07, Shane Broomhall wrote: > My name is Shane Broomhall from Brisbane Australia.
Australian is ok, but did you have to mention XXXX? > IBM thinkpad A20m. They work fine under the penguin. Depending on model, you have some minor display issues to attend to. > It has an internal DVD Standard ide-cdrom under linux, with the option of using special app binaries to 'play dvd' of which I am ignorant. BUT, as a base driver, this animal is a linux, ide, cd-rom. > and a Win Modem. Winmodem->Pctel-> But, get an external and save grief. You *can* get it working, for AUD50 why bother? >I have an Iomega USB Zip Bulk-Storage-Zip->USB >USB CDR. USB -> General info (answer is yes, but I'm not 100% on the cd burn) > My last usage of Suse was on this laptop with 7.0. I have purchased 7.3 > pro. My questions are as follows.: This mail-server runs SuSE 7.3 (when Dougie ain't fiddling with it) > the 2.4 Kernal has support for USB devices, would anyone know if my USB CDR > would be detected and it it would be useable as a CDR. ?? General answer is it will work as a cd-rom, I believe it is hot pluggable and haven't tried that, I am ignorant of a usb->scsi emulator. Scsi emulation is mandatory for burning *any* cd. > Does the USB Zip Drive work as well ??? Perfectly. Both 100, and 250 megger cartridges. It is also hot pluggable. > I have heard that Winmodems are now useable, has anyone had experiences > with making these work with 7.3 and could you please give me hint on where > to find the instructions. ??? you want a hint? Buy an external and don't muck about. >Myob You *might* want to consider dual boot. Avoid Windows XP NTFS style formatting whichever way you go. Such 'disks' are currently read-only under Linux. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
