> 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I > made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. > > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a > DeskJet 500, as well as a parallel port iomega zip drive. > > I don't think it's the zip drive, because I tried installing from scratch > without it, and it didn't help. > > The only unusual thing I can think of is that when I got the printer cable, > I needed one with pins sticking out of both ends (instead of with one male > and one female connector) because that's just the way the ports are > built. The salesperson was surprised at this, but I figure the cord plugs in > so that can't be the problem. > > I've recompiled both a 2.0.34 and a 2.1.126 kernel several times, with no > luck. I've looked through the Printing HOWTO, and just generally poked > around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate.
Have you tried running magicfilter? Is the lpr daemon running? HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
