Nervious wannabe new user asks for advice.

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 18:57, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> >Maxim Eremeev said:
> >>BTW, why not just give it a try by dual boot installation (I mean
> >>Windows and Fedora)?
> >
> >Dual-booting Windows and FC3 is notoriously problematic.  The user would
> >do well to read up on the geometry issues that come up before doing a
> >dual-boot; as far as I know, the bug is still present in FC3.
>
> Well, probably, I just did not know about it. Last time I used the dual
> boot on FC2. Never had any problem there and did not know that things
> had changed so dramatically for FC3 - sorry, then.
>
> >>>So onto the hardware I am worried about. The first is
> >>>my ADSL modem which is a BT Voyager 100, the second my
> >>>printer which is an Epson C64,

I have a C64 attached to this system here.  Works fine.  No ink monitoring 
etc, no fancy Epson Printer Applet, but I hate that on Wondows anyway, always 
pops up and blocks what I'm doing on the screen.  And I print so much I 
pretty well know almost exactly when the printer is going to run out of ink 
on me .. normally just 3 or four pages from the end of those 150 pages that I 
*absolutely HAVE* to get in the post tonight ... and the post goes in 5 
minutes.

.... and I used the last spare ink cartridge this morning.

> >>>though I would be 
> >>>upgrading to a R200 in the near future. Does anyone
> >>>here have any of these and if so did they work? If not
> >>>here would I go for drivers for them?
> >
> >Your ASDL modem shouldn't be an issue, really, since you don't connect to
> >it directly; you use a network card to interface with the Internet
> >connection that's delivered over the modem.  So make sure your network
> >card is compatible (hint: it most likely is).
>
> The problem is that this one is a USB modem...
>
> >>>I have been incontact with the Epson and British
> >>>Telecom (BT) about linux drivers and both came back
> >>>with a negative response.
> >
> >Most printer manufacturers don't bother with creating Linux drivers for
> >their products.  However, http://linuxprinting.org/ is a goldmine of
> >information about printers.  You might want to look into CUPS for your
> >printer setup; you'll find more information at that site.
> >
> >Good luck!

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Tony Dietrich
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