Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gerhard Häring wrote: > Hi! > > My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer > under SUSE (no reason why it shouldn't work with Debian) was to unload > the zip driver and load the drivers necessary for printing: > > rmmod ppa (need unmount zip drive first) > i

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
See: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 ... for a list of known issues when running the newer kernels on Slink machines. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > A: > > One way is to use modules, which I think most people do. >

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > >1) > >Did you install the latest kernel with slink? > >Any problems with it? > > Not really. There's a list of packages you should update to use 2.2 > with slink, but nothing major. Yes, I think that they are listed in the installation manual. I mi

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: A: > One way is to use modules, which I think most people do. Is there any doc available how to compile the kernel using just those modules (printer and zip-drive) so that it works effectively? (In the installation manual there is a long talk about tha

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: > [description of problem snipped] > I wanted to be able sometimes use the zip drive and sometimes > to use the printer. Do I have to install the system newly without the > zip-driver or is there some better solution available? > > -hv > One way is to use mod

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread Gerhard Häring
Hi! No, this is Linux, you don't have to reinstall :-) Well, I have just recently switched to Debian and haven't yet set up all my hardware to work with it (including printer) - SUSE was much friendlier in this respect. My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer under SUSE (no re

(Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-02 Thread virtanen
1) I managed to install Iomega parallel Zip drive on my debian machine just by selecting during the installation process a driver for that. It seems to be working perfectly. 2) Now I just purchased a cheap printer, which according to the documentation of Ghostscript should be working with debian