From: "Peeter Vissak" : But here the problems start. : The old distros (..are unable to : communicate neither with my Nikon D70S nor with the Canon Pixma office : printer : So anybody, please, give me a hint how to overcome the problem of getting the : USB device (a camera for instance) to work on my Knoppix 3.7 when it simply : refuses. what about running wine and emulating an earlier windows distro.. or better and cheaper, buying a USB card reader and popping the card into that when you want to move the images? Sorry I can't help with the printer but try here for various canon drivers http://www.canon.co.nz/products/printers/colour_bj_printers.html for example they have some rpms here for the i250 http://www.canon.co.nz/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/i250_drivers.ht ml k