__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 30 March 2007 08:44 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Kelsey Bjarnason ] on Friday 30 March 2007 00:17 \__
>>
>>> [snips]
>>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:07:14 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow, this really is some disaster, isn't it? Sooner or later, the
>>>> quality of Linux's hardware support would reveal itself to the masses,
>>>
>>> Speaking of which...
>>>
>>> Just dropped a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500 into my box at home. Boot up...
>>> hmm... detects it as two PVR 150 devices, which is about right - it's a
>>> dual-tuner, dual-compressor device, essentially two 150s on a single
>>> board.
>>>
>>> Box came with a driver CD for Windows. Wonder why? The Linux box didn't
>>> need it.
>>
>> The same goes when it comes to printers and scanner, based on what I have
>> seen. Monitors, sound cards, et cetera... people still rely on the OEMs
>> when it comes to Windows... or some installation CD (which is likely to be
>> useless if you got suckered into paying for Windows Vista).
>>
>
> Talking of such things, I've just replaced an ageing HP Officejet
> machine with a nice new Samsung CLP-550N. It wasn't a trivial task, to
> be fair, but this is what I did:
>
> 1. Connected 550N to network
> 2. Printed out the network settings from printer's own menu to get ip
> address
> 3. Used nmap to get Mac address
> 4. Fixed IP address for printer with bootp entry in dhcp server
> 5. Pointed cups to printer using jetdirect driver with
> socket:/ip.address:9100
> 6. Downloaded and installed manufacturer's ppd file into cups directory
> 7. Got perfect printing from all computers.
>
> Now, I appreciate that it's not the easiest thing in the world, and
> samsung to provide a utility to find the printer on the network, and
> they do provide a much more comprehensive driver setup and all sorts all
> for linux, but I find that being able to do this using standard tools is
> somehow very gratifying.
>
> My No1 son is taking is Geography project to school this morning,
> written using openoffice on ubuntu on his power-pc machine, and printed
> on the new colour laser printer. He's also taken a pdf of the document
> on his usb key, also created from openoffice, just in case.
Printer setup ought to be easier. It's either automatically detected or
requires you to select the printer from the drop down box in a front-end
like YaST. No vendor CDs needed.
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