Reply to post: Re: #@$Drivers

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

cornetman Silver badge

Re: #@$Drivers

> Initial Setup. Presumably to get around the fact that not all PCs have floppy or CDROM capability, this thing fresh from the box pretends to be a storage device. You need to connect it to a Windows computer which can then read the Windows (but not Linux) drivers from the device, install them and reconfigure the thing as a printer.

Perhaps the Windows driver is sending firmware? It's common for some devices to be pretty dumb until volatile firmware is loaded up. They just need the barest of interfaces to permit the firmware transfer.

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