Subject: Re: close to giving up on YDL 2
From: cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 22:03:31 MDT
For printing have you tried XPDQ ? works really well with linux and the
rpms are available, if not compile the source. you can find it at
sourceforge.
Hope this helps.
-D
V Mabus wrote:
> Try the tutorial at:
> <http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html>
> It worked for me (default route was set to eth0).
> As for your printer, my experience has been the same as yours.
> HTH
> VMabus
>
> Merrill Aldrich wrote:
>
> > I hope that some generous soul out there will help me out. I am an
> > experienced computer user but I am just attempting to learn Linux. I
> > have been working every evening for over a week trying to get ppp and
> > my printer working. I have looked at a great many web sites and
> > newsgroups for many hours, to no avail. None of the FAQs and HOWTOs I
> > have found actually document the problems I have encountered, and my
> > posts on the newsgroups and this list have not yielded any response.
> > My wife practically does not recognise me anymore, I've spent so much
> > time locked up in the office =^). I know that no-one is obligated to
> > reply, but there are so few other sources of information that I am
> > hoping someone will take pity.
> >
> > If there is a person out there who has a few minutes, here are some
> > questions I have not been able to find answers to:
> >
> > With both the modem and the printer, I get error messages that say
> > "device does not exist," in spite of the fact that there are files for
> > both in /dev. For example, the modem is in the computer, and I know it
> > works from the Mac side (this message went through it.) There is a
> > file /dev/ttyS0, and the dialup configuration is set to use that --
> > but when I attempt to dial the modem, I get the error "device does not
> > exist."
> >
> > The same is true for the printer: the file /dev/usb/lp0 exists, and I
> > made a printer in /etc/printcap using printtool that is set to
> > /dev/usb/lp0 -- but when I attempt to print, I get a message that the
> > device doesn't exist. There must be a step I am missing -- is there
> > something required to "hook up" the files in /dev so that they
> > actually connect to the hardware device they are intended to
> > communicate with?
> >
> > If you can help me out, I would really appreciate it.
> >
> > I am running YDL 2.0 on a cube with kernel 2.4.4-1a and KDE 2.1.2
> >
> > - Merrill Aldrich
> >
> >
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Christopher M Downs
Skillsoft Corporation
http://www.skillsoft.com
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