Dave:
Some HP devices I have working fine with Linux are:
- HP Deskjet 500: It works fine after more than 11 years of daily printing.
- HP Scanjet 5200C: It is now connected via a USB port. It works fine
as a copier or a scanner.
- HP Officejet V40: HP made drivers for it. HP is now committed to
Linux. HP is making Linux drivers for everything.
- It works fine as a copier and scanner.
- It prints very well both color and B&W.
- It does not work as a fax sender/receiver (from the PC) yet (
Winmodem???). You can send/receive faxes manually.
HP Deskjet 692C: It was printing very well in color and B&W. It is
broken. I sent to a local HP representative to have it fixed... It is
still broken.
I have also been able to see images and videos directly from a HP
digital camera connected to the USB port and mounted as a scsi hard disk.
I also have a 128MB Immation Mini disk ( key disk) that plugs in to the
USB port as a scsi disk also.
Another USB devices: my Palm m130 and a CreativeLabs Webcam.
My headache: The CNR AC97 modem. Works fine with cu and minicom.
Freezes with PPP.
GZS
Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> My thanks to everyone who replied to this subject. Lots of good ideas,
> I'll definitely put some of them to use.
>
> Here a few more notes on what I plan to do :
>
> Red Hat (Fedora?) or Mandrake install
> totally GUI for the user
> Crossover stuff (thanks for the reminders!)
> And here's what they have for peripherals :
>
> a scanner, not sure what kind
> an HP printer (610C ? 810C ? I'll find out later... )
>
> Things they need to do include :
>
> Web browsing
> print from Web (color, b&w)
> on-line banking via Web browser (I'm afraid IE may be required,
> don't know though)
> print from file manager (color, b&w)
> operate scanner
> basic image editing
>
> Their net connection is DSL through SBC/Yahoo. I don't expect problems
> with that, I had the same connectivity at my old
> apartment, no problems with various Linux distros.
>
> They don't have games installed, they don't really run any apps beyond
> the browser. My only concern is wrt the on-line
> banking requirements. Does anyone here do on-line banking via a Linux
> browser ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> == dp
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