11 May
2007
11 May
'07
10:50 a.m.
On 11/05/2007 16:22, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
Once the images were copied onto the
student workstations and they got powered up, both USB devices
demanded drivers to be installed because the devices were plugged into
different USB ports than they were on the main station! Argh! (More
frustrating than it sounds because we didn't know that this was the
problem, of course. We had to go around 12 workstations and
sequentially install the driver 1, reboot, install driver 2, reboot...
ugh.)
That is beyond dumb. That is broken by design.
Yep, this sounds not unlike the problem of using a USB to serial adapter
which only gets plugged in when needed. I always use the same serial
adapter, but sometimes it shows up as COM3, sometimes as COM6, sometimes
as COM15, etc, even when it's plugged into the same USB port (this is
under Win XP). It wouldn't matter, except that hyperterminal needs to
know which COM port, and it's stored in the settings file, so I end up
guessing which settings file to pick.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York