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Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"



On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:53:03AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> 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.

[...]

>> How current is her Debian install?
>
> From stable, but a little old.

From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not 
stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has kernel 2.6.18 
as opposed to 2.6.8 (or the default 2.4).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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