It's quite impossible to dianose at this level - you've provided no specific information.
- What happens when you try to print something to your printer? - What filtering mechanism are you using for your printer? magicfilter? Have you tried using magicfilterconf to set it up? - What happens when you try to connect to the internet? - What are the output of ifconfig, route -n, and traceroute before and after you try to connect? - What, if any, messages are in the logs? - Have you read the printing HOWTO and the ISP-Hookup HOWTO and the PPP HOWTO? At what point did your experience diverge from these? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have written a couple of times about my two problems, namely that Debian > will not recognize that I have a printer connected and that I can connect > to my ISP but can't get on to the internet. Here is some more information. > The printer and internet connection work with Windows. > The printer works in Redhat, but I cannot get connected to the internet. > Neither printer nor internet connection works with Debian. > My ISP administrator finally came to my house with his computer and using > Redhat connected to the internet over my line. > I have reset my BIOS to factory defaults. > > I can't think of anything else to check. Does anybody have any ideas or do > we assume that a gremlin resides in my computer and hates linux. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
