Hi,
On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection and RH 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
On booting starting lpd I get:
--localhost Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!
The same message I get when trying to print a test page in printer-config.
I configured a simulated Internet connection, the problem remains.
I am an old RedHat hand so-to-speak and this is the first time I can't get the
printer to work. On all previous installations the PCs had modems attached.
Could this be the problem that there is none. Would be strange so.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Well ... your question makes me realize that I've never, in 10 years, set up a Linux system that did not have a network connection (LAN or dialup). But ... lpd is a daemon that listens on TCP port 515, so it does need a TCP/IP stack running. Since you "configured a simulated Internet connection", I infer you are running a kernel with the necessary TCP/IP support.
Do you have an "lo" interface, and is it configured as 127.0.0.1/8 ?
Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts that resolves "localhost" to that address ... that is, a line like --
127.0.0.1 localhost
Just fishing here, really. You probably skipped some required step, but if it isn't one of the ones I mention, I cannot think what ti might be.
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