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On Saturday 08 November 2008 12:27, Julian Hall wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > I'm not sure any hardware would require language specific drivers! > > Tom te tom te tom > > Actually I've come across almost exactly that previously. In that case > it was a customer with Dutch Windows on his PC trying to install the > Virgin Net software. As the Dutch system files were slightly different > sizes/version numbers from the English ones, the Virign software threw a > tantrum saying it couldn't find what it was looking for. We also had > similar issues with customer who bought heap versions of Windows in > France. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that drivers might cause > a similar problem. > But on Linux there would be no expectations of the driver size/version number etc. I can imagine any associated documentation and configuration routines may be a problem. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html