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Originally Published: Tuesday, 8 August 2000 Author: Tom Dominico, Jr.
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Linuxnewbie.Org: Getting USB/Your Printer Working

2.2.x kernels do have USB built-in, but its very outdated and buggy. The 2.3.x and 2.4.x have much better USB support, but not everyone may want to use a development kernel. Luckily, the 2.3.x USB support has been "backpatched" to work with the 2.2.x kernel. So in order to get USB support working properly, we must download and apply a patch.



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