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I gave a copy of Ubuntu to a friend who liked it on my laptop and liked the principles behind GNU/Linux. His free usb modem did not work and I passed on to him the advice from this list to get a router for around £25. He has saved up for one (not on a high wage) as he realised the firewall was good, though he had been prepared to sort out the driver issue himself. He also has to solve the printer problem! Without having checked with him, I an only assume it was one of the Windows printers also mentioned in an earlier post.Neither of those commonly issued devices will work "out of the box" within a GNU/Linux system - even those which are including "non-free" drivers. A couple of weeks ago, I had two people who were very interested in moving to Ubuntu from Windows. They both reported back to me that their USB modems did not work.
-- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk/ |
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