Nate Straz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:09:49PM -0600, Lorry wrote:
> > I hate ME intensely.  I have my 95 disks from my previous machine.  I
> > only use Windows for two things: my printer and my digital camera.  I'm
> > hoping I can get the printer sorted in Linux after my overhaul (Anyone
> > know about USB in Linux?)
> 
> I have both my digital camera (Fuji FinePix 1400Zoom) and my printer
> (Brother HL-1240) working under Linux with USB.
> 
> My camera initially didn't work.  I followed someone's recommended
> attack plan and got it working.  Then the USB-storage maintainer said,
> "Do it this way." and after a few iterations, my camera was supported.
> Search through the usb-devel archives[1] for your camera so see if
> anyone has it working or if any work was done for it.
> 
> Using USB for printers isn't that hard.  The hardest part is probably
> getting ghostscript to generate the write output for your printer.
> Check out www.linuxprinting.org to see if your printer is supported.
> All you need to do for USB is to compile the support in and make sure
> you have the modules loaded when lpd starts up.  I haven't figured out
> how to make it smooth yet.  I think I still have to restart lpd when I
> plug in my printer.  It may just have to do with my use of devfs on that
> box.
> 
> Nate

My USB Kodak camera and USB Epson printer both worked out of the box with
RedHat 7.1 (as well, as my TV card, sound card, onboard sound hardware,
3ware RAID controller, nvidia card, etc... - completely awesome).

Kent