Gustavo Minari wrote: > > May I have some problems using: > > Video: SiS 6326 > Modem: LT Win Modem #2 > Sound: Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V > Printer: Epson Stylus Color II > Scanner: Avision - Model: AV260C > > With your Linux package???? > > Please send your response!!! > > I´m waiting!!! > > Gustavo Minari
By the phrase "your Linux package", I assume you mean the "Debian/GNU Linux distribution, which is composed of thousands of packages". If you mean a specific package in the Debian distro, you'll need to be more precise. Unless someone on the list has specific experience with any of your hardware, you'll probably want to do a web search for "linux hardware compatibility" to find a list of hardware that works with Linux. For example, here's one such site: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html. Hopefully someone on this list can address your specific concerns, which might be more valuable to you than finding limited info in a Hardware-HOWTO. Unfortunately, I can not. However, concerning the "LT Win Modem #2": winmodems are so named because they are designed to work with Microsoft Windows. Except in rare cases, they won't work with Linux, or OS/2, or Be, or DOS, or anything else that the manufacturer is too lazy/cheap to support. Winmodems are not real modems; they expect the computer's CPU to do the MODulating/DEModulating, which both ties up your CPU's time and requires manufacturer-supplied drivers. Few manufacturers of winmodems have shown much interest in providing the drivers for Linux, or in providing the information necessary for the Linux community to write their own drivers. In my opinion, winmodems are a fraud perpetrated upon the unsuspecting computer-using market, and should be avoided. Even if you have a great-working winmodem today, when the next release of MS-Windows comes out (Win2003, etc), and your winmodem manufacturer has gone belly-up or has offended Microsoft in some way, your winmodem has just become a doorstop. Of course, that doesn't help you, who already has a winmodem. (Forgive me for ranting; I despise win-hardware, including winprinters.) There has been some limited success in getting a few winmodems/winprinters to work with Linux. As said earlier, hopefully someone on this list can be of more help than my anti-winhardware ranting.
