Nervious wannabe new user asks for advice.

[Maxim Eremeev]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

>Maxim Eremeev said:
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>>BTW, why not just give it a try by dual boot installation (I mean
>>Windows and Fedora)?
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>Dual-booting Windows and FC3 is notoriously problematic.  The user would
>do well to read up on the geometry issues that come up before doing a
>dual-boot; as far as I know, the bug is still present in FC3.
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Well, probably, I just did not know about it. Last time I used the dual 
boot on FC2. Never had any problem there and did not know that things 
had changed so dramatically for FC3 - sorry, then.

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>>>So onto the hardware I am worried about. The first is
>>>my ADSL modem which is a BT Voyager 100, the second my
>>>printer which is an Epson C64, though I would be
>>>upgrading to a R200 in the near future. Does anyone
>>>here have any of these and if so did they work? If not
>>>here would I go for drivers for them?
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>Your ASDL modem shouldn't be an issue, really, since you don't connect to
>it directly; you use a network card to interface with the Internet
>connection that's delivered over the modem.  So make sure your network
>card is compatible (hint: it most likely is).
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The problem is that this one is a USB modem...

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>>>I have been incontact with the Epson and British
>>>Telecom (BT) about linux drivers and both came back
>>>with a negative response.
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>Most printer manufacturers don't bother with creating Linux drivers for
>their products.  However, http://linuxprinting.org/ is a goldmine of
>information about printers.  You might want to look into CUPS for your
>printer setup; you'll find more information at that site.
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>Good luck!
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