Re: Windows Vista drivers (or Netflix watch now on Linux)

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Nov 29, 2007 2:49 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> And yes, Windows can be a real pain. Keeping a Linux system running well 
> is in many ways much easier. It has its own hassles though; it wasn't 
> until the release of Gutsy that I was finally able to get the wireless 
> card in my Compaq laptop to work with Linux. And my two fancy sound 
> interfaces (Echo Audio Mona Laptop and M-Audio Transit USB) still don't; 
> the USB one works once in a while, the Mona (which uses a PCMCIA card) 
> doesn't work at all. There is support for the Mona with the PCI desktop 
> card, but nobody has written a driver for the PCMCIA version. 

This is a common problem.  You always need to ensure that your 
hardware vendor offers a Linux driver for the device.  If they don't, 
you should call them up and ask for a refund or a replacement.  I have 
done it before, saying they claimed it was "PC-compatible".  But my PC 
runs Linux... 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 

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