release party was great!

[Brian Fallik]

I don't know the particular problem but I have has mixed results with
lower-end USB devices.  The latest problem was a cheapo USB CF reader,
which wasn't detected at all.  It did work on a Mac, though.

On 10/19/07, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> The USB support comes from the linux kernel and isn't so much in the
> power of the gutsy team. saying that though I've _never_ seen a usb
> cipset, usb hub or other usb networking device fail to work since the
> usb standard is extreamly well supported in linux and has been for
> years.
>
> Perhaps there is something percuilur with your motherboard and it's
> usb chipset; if you'd like to send me a hardware profile I could look
> at it but for now you the first person I've heard for a long long time
> (years) to say their usb doesn't work at all.
>
> On 19/10/2007, George Ernest Noon <george.noon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >         I thought the release party held last evening
> > at the Globe was great. I didn't really know anyone,
> > as I am still quite new to this OS, and by nature
> > somewhat cautious --- also, I don't tend to be very
> > pushy in making new acquaintances...
> >         This was actually my second foray into an
> > organized group of Linux users -- the first was the
> > Software Freedom Day get  together held in Chinatown,
> > Boston - last month, i believe.
> >         Initially, i would have had my son along, but
> > as he's now assistant manager of the Convenience Store
> > he works at, in Middleboro MA, and someone had called in
> > sick, he had to cover the time himself. Also, a friend from
> > Freetown had originally planned on attending with us,
> > but he had to meet with a couple of roofing contractors,
> > to arrange getting a new roof done on his home.
> >         Was a bit surprised to be probably the oldest one
> > in attendance; I don't know why that should be, after all,
> > I know hat a big time University locale the Boston area is -
> > I guess I just there would be a greater number of longer
> > experienced computer users there - [an attempt to avoid
> > saying oldest, again] looking toward getting free of that
> > ever-so-costly, non-freedom-embracing OS from Redmond WA!
> >         Any way' friends, thanks for a great time -- will be
> > on the lookout for other get togethers, and getting my new
> > computer set up with Ubuntu - first with Feisty, then after
> > I've settled in with it a bit, I'll upgrade to Gutsy; hopefully,
> > by then, it will have support for USB --- otherwise the upgrade
> > would sort of leave me input-crippled: my Kensington Expert
> > Mouse Trackball and Gigaware (dvorak-ized) Keyboard are both
> > USB types, as is a 40GB external portable HD I use. I really don't
> > understand why the Gutsy team would have opted not to support USB.
> > Hopefully, perhaps the reports to that effect are in error.
> > ~~~~George Noon [Whitman MA]
> >
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