On Friday 12 Nov 2004 13:32, Greg Meyer wrote:
> Ever try
> to install Windows from scratch, track down drivers and get them installed
> without a network connection, then try to configure a wireless conection so
> that it co-exists nicely with more than one access point, and then try to
> apply the Windows updates before getting infected?  It's not a picnic
> either.

It took me something like 3 hours to get my printer installed under windows.  
It's an HP Deskjet, and I had the driver disk, but the ***** would *not* 
install.  Eventually I worked out that it would not install because it was on 
a USB hub.  Once I connected it directly to the box, it worked.  Now how was 
I supposed to know that?  There were no error messages - it just said there 
was no USB printer.  And they call this user-friendly?

The same printer installed perfectly under Mandrake, and serves two other 
boxes on the LAN, just by editing one single printerserver line in CUPS 
configuration.  Guess which I prefer?

Anne
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