Vickram Crishna wrote: > I have yet to see any USB device that did not run > automatically on a Mac desktop. Either the Mac OS > comes loaded with every conceivable driver, or else > the USB devices have some sort of self loading drivers > anyway. Or is there some other possibility?
Mac OS X comes with a lot of drivers and is a bit more looser with respect to choosing an appropriate driver for a device. It approximates, Windows doesn't, which makes it seem that more devices work on Mac OS X. Truth is that Windows (XP not Vista!) have around the same number of USB drivers but refuses to use a driver that doesn't *exactly* match the device it was meant for. Try running the "custom driver wizard" and choose a generic USB driver or an approximate, you'll be surprised with the results. AFAIK, there are not standards for self-loading USB drivers as of yet. -- Anant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
