Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"
Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> [2007 Sep 26 03:22 -0500]:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the
mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers.
Oops! I somehow neglected to specify...
PS/2 style keyboard
PS/2 style mouse
Keyboard works
PS/2 style keyboard
USB style mouse
Keyboard stops working
Same setup works with you-know-what.
I have two IBM ThinkCentre machines each with a PS/2 keyboard and USB
mouse that have been running Debian for well over a year with no
problems of any sort. They were updated to Stable/Etch this spring and
work like a hose. I suspect her machine has some flaky USB hardware.
I suppose that is possible, though the BIOS and Windows have
no troubles seeing both at the same time.
I have plugged USB peripherals into my T23 laptop (keyboard and mouse)
and both devices "just worked" without my intervention. This has been
within the past 24 to 30 months. What version of Debian does she have
installed?
I'd have to check. I know it was installed within the last
couple of years. Actually, looking back in my e-mail records,
it was probably in Sep 2005. I don't think it has been updated
much if any since then. I updated her Thunderbird to 2.0.0.6
just the other day, but I don't see any reasonable possibility
to USB incompatibilities being resolved by that.
It will be interesting to see if the memory stick works with her
desktop and hub under XP. The fact it does work under XP with her
laptop does not rule out hardware incompatibility with her desktop
machine.
Yes.
She's quite familiar with Windows XP. She uses it at work.
As do I and that experience has taught me to *never* use it at home.
In fact, my work laptop is not allowed on my home network.
Dif'runt strokes for dif'runt folks, I guess. I don't and never
have particularly cared for any of the versions of Windows.
However, much of the touted "vulnerability" of Windows is more
due to it not protecting witless users from themselves than
inherent vulnerability. I used W95 for quite a number of years,
and never once got compromised.
Living behind a router with firewall enabled is a big help
in that regard. So is not doing dubious things like downloading
and executing programs in order to get new command line prompts
and cute icons.
How current is her Debian install?
From stable, but a little old.
Mike
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