Thanks Mike for your reply. I actually forgot to mention that it is USB. Bill On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:05, Michael Sacco wrote:

On Saturday 28 June 2003 04:30 am, Bill Wisse wrote:

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Haia

I just received a HP all-in-one printer psc2110. The whole setup instructions are just for M$ and Mac ofcourse. Can I just connect it and let SuSE 8.2 do the rest? Because it says ""Do not connect before instructed"" or is this just related to the M$ cdrom.

Help please.

-- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south.

My holy cow is a penguin.

My interpretation of don't hook it up before you put in the CD is because M$ comes with drivers for almost everything under the sun, and if you hook up your printer without installing HP's drivers first, you might install M$ drivers for the printer, thus reducing it's usability. With SuSE, hooking it up first will give linux the ability to autodetect new hardware, and probably set it up for you (make sure you reboot the system, unless it's USB I don't think it's hotplugable) . Basically, it's the same thing that windows would do, but since HP doesn't give you linux drivers, you need to use the drivers that the OS are going to give you.

Mike Sacco

-- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.