I gave up on my well reported, here, effort to get my
custom kernel 2.4.22 to support CD writing.
I decided to try a prepackaged debian kernel as
someone suggested here. As long as I was going to the
trouble, I chose kernel-image-2.6.0-test4-1-386, using
apt-get upgrade. It took over five hours
--- klaus imgrund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My Swen volume had dropped to a managable one per
day since my last
post here around six weeks ago. I posted last
night (helping
someone fight Swen), and this morning, there were
20+ Swens, over 3
Megabytes. I was *that* close to
--- klaus imgrund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 19 October 2003 13:50, Sidney Brooks
wrote:
--- klaus imgrund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My Swen volume had dropped to a managable one
per
day since my last
post here around six weeks ago. I posted last
night
Surely, I am not the only person who has thought that
spam is a tool for attacking the U. S. (yes to some
this will seem provincial) by crippling what has
become a major means of communication. It can also be
a tool to repress ideas that you don't agree with,
e.g. if someone writes a message in
--- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks writes:
Surely, I am not the only person who has thought
that spam is a tool for
attacking the U. S. (yes to some this will seem
provincial) by crippling
what has become a major means of communication.
Much if not most spam
Filters will not solve the problem. The problem is
that so much spam is coming in that it overloads the
allocated mailbox space and then Yahoo, and I presume
other services, refuse to accept more email. A filter
can divert spam into trash, but trash counts against
your quota until you delete it.
Filters will not solve the problem. The problem is
that so much spam is coming in that it overloads the
allocated mailbox space and then Yahoo, and I presume
other services, refuse to accept more email. A filter
can divert spam into trash, but trash counts against
your quota until you delete it.
I am still at it. I believe that I have created the
proper Debian package for a kernel that should enable
CD writing. I still can't do it.
As I explained many messages ago, my lilo is on a
different partition than the one for which I want CD
writing. The new kernel created a lilo which is
located
What if we put some pressure on the email providers,
in my case Yahoo. Suppose I create a new email account
with Yahoo, whose address I gave to correspondents
that I want, while keeping my current Yahoo address
only for this list. In time Yahoo's memory banks will
be so cluttered with junk that
--- csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:20:44 +0100,
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:28:43AM +0100, Joseph
Jones
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at
some tasks
(yes, they are non-standard HTML tasks, but
--- Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 17:04 GMT, Sidney Brooks
penned:
What if we put some pressure on the email
providers, in my case Yahoo.
Suppose I create a new email account with Yahoo,
whose address I gave
to correspondents that I want
--- ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:57:15AM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
Filters will not solve the problem. The problem is
that so much spam is coming in that it overloads
the
allocated mailbox space and then Yahoo, and I
presume
other services, refuse
...
- for simplicity ... make a boot floppy
for the cdrw version of the kernel
and that will not touch any of your
current existing boot stuff
( syslinux, lilo, dd, grub, ... )
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Sidney Brooks wrote:
I am still at it. I believe that I have created
--- Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Sidney Brooks wrote:
your kernel config looks good
egrep -i
BLK_DEV_LOOP|BLK_DEV_RAM|BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE|BLK_DEV_IDESCSI|CONFIG_SCSI=|CONFIG_MINIX_FS
/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.22/.config
also keep a copy
distros (I believ).
It is a simple text file and can be viewed with
your favorite editor.
cheers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must confess that I am still confused although
the
messages here are helping.
When I look at my
I have done all the things described below and it
still does not work.
--- Naota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:39:52AM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
Although Alvin Oga pointed me in the right
direction,
I have still not been
? And that there is a command
equivalent to lilo, maybe grub? Can grub be erased
easily if things go wrong? I do not want to mess up my
entire computer in an effort to gain CD writing.
sidney
--- Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:37:44AM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote
--- Naota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
I have done all the things described below and it
still does not work.
Okay, how about this, then:
Please post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf,
/etc/modules.conf, and
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
We'll be able to help more after
--- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:27:32PM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
--- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:48:01PM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
Without going through the whole thread, my problem
seems
As a result of my thread here, I am getting an almost
endless stream of spam messages, supposedly from
microsoft. Unless I clean out bulk and trash every
few hours, they are pushing me beyond my Yahoo
allowance. The effect is to cut me off from sending
and receiving messages. Is this happening to
--- Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:11:46PM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
| I went through the .config file and compared it
with
| the instructions in the CDRW-WritinguHOWTO.
| The following line was missing.
| ATA/IDE: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
--- M. Kirchhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I found a good instruction article on the
internet.
Care to share the location? I'm sure others could
benefit! thanks much
--M.
The guide for installing Debian that I used was:
www.darknet.org.uk
I am reaching a stage of complete frustration in my
effort to install a CD writer. I have Debian woody
with a 2.4.22 kernel that I got from www.kernel.org.
My effort to configure the kernel for the scsi
emulation always fails. I am following the
instructions of: Linux-1U.net/CDRW CDRW-Writing
I must confess that I am still confused although the
messages here are helping.
When I look at my installed Debian packages, I have:
kernel-image-2 Custom.2 (the last one that I made).
The only things that I have in /etc/modules are:
af_packet
sr_mod
If I knew how you printed out make config
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that occurs to me: you did do
make modules
make modules_install
right?
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These are not in the instructions that I am following.
At what point are these things to be done?
I
--- steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi sidney,
maybe this is of some help, i hope.
why not install a kernel like vanilla, with - as
root - a line in /etc/lilo.conf
append=hdx=ide-scsi, hdx = hdd, hdc, or something
like that: the name woody
gives to your cdrom-writer
this a f
I now think that I should explain how I have set up my
computer because what I thought should be irrelevant
may somehow be the cause of my troubles. I welcome
criticism.
I have separate partitions on my hard drive for
WindowsXP and two versions of Debian woody. I think of
one Debian partition as
I have Debian woody with a 2.4.22 kernel and want to
install my cd writer. I am using two publications as
my guide, by pbharris and joreybump. Both instruct me
to insert modules for scsi emulation, in particular
ide-scsi.I do not have this module. I have gone
through the kernel compilation
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Sidney
Brooks wrote:
I have Debian woody with a 2.4.22 kernel and want
to
install my cd writer. I am using two publications
as
my guide, by pbharris and joreybump. Both instruct
me
to insert modules
Oops! I made a mistake in my last posting, the source
was www.kernel.org. I had the other address on my mind
since I upgraded to kde 3.1.4 after I upgraded the
kernel.
--- Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:17PM -0700
I upgraded to kde 3.1.4 following the instructions in
David Pashley's FAQ. In order not to spoil my working
woody system, I installed another woody system on a
different partition to try things out. On my tryout
partition, kde 3.1.4 works properly. When I installed
it on my working woody
Even though I really don't know what happened, I
solved my problem. Somehow, kde was being contaminated
by gnome.
I logged into and out of gnome. Then I logged into kde
3.1.4 and everything worked properly. As an old friend
of mine used to say, No knowledge, confidence.
--- Sidney Brooks
About a week ago, I sent a number of postings to this
site about my difficulties in installing woody. Thanks
to a number of helpful respondents, I now have a
working debian woody, including a usb printer.
I am impressed by the quality of this distribution and
believe that a good installation
I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From
what I read, I must install the module uhci to do
this. I do not know where to find this module and how
to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success.
This must be something that everybody but me knows how
to
do as everything I read assumes
--- John Spray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
I must install the module uhci
Linux kernel modules are already present on your
system. Installing the
module refers not to obtaining it, but to loading it
into the running
kernel. This is generally done with a command
--- John Spray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
I must install the module uhci
Linux kernel modules are already present on your
system. Installing the
module refers not to obtaining it, but to loading it
into the running
kernel. This is generally done with a command
your
/etc/lilo.conf file. Don't
forget to apply the changes by executing lilo.
Reboot, select the new kernel and try modprobe
usb-uhci
Martin
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 21:58, Sidney Brooks wrote:
--- John Spray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
I must install
Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo
on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that
it has no affect on the MBR? Exactly, what does it do
when it is on a partition? Presumably, it specifies
the kernel to be used on the partition, but how do you
get to the partition in the
--- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent writes:
Run plog fairly often while pon is
dialing/connecting. It might give
you a clue as to what's going wrong.
Or run 'plog -f' once. man plog
--
John Hasler
To give the whole log would be too lengthy.
The log indicates a correct
Something peculiar happened. After failing to connect
with ppp and kppp, I decided to try wvdial. It also
failed the authorization stage. While I was doing
something else, it redialed and got connected.
I then decided to try the same thing with pon. It
failed to connect. I followed this with
--- Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something peculiar happened. After failing to
connect
with ppp and kppp, I decided to try wvdial. It also
failed the authorization stage. While I was doing
something else, it redialed and got connected.
I then decided to try the same thing
I seem to be able to get on the internet now. For
those who helped me and any one else interested, I
offer my tentative explanation for criticism.
When I installed Debian, I included diald. However, in
setting up diald, I had a problem in that I have pulse
dialing and there was no way (I thought)
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
--- Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
1. I can get two dialers, kppp and
ppp[config/pon/poff], to dial
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:: Sidney Brooks wrote:
::I commented out auth. The only difference it
made is
::that the connected icon appeared on the bottom
of the
::screen. However, as before, the browser could
not
::connect with any website
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
I have two problems left.
1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp, to dial,
but
they do not authenticate. The kppp log says:
The system is required to authenticate itself
but I cannot find any suitable secret (password
--- Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
1. I can get two dialers, kppp and
ppp[config/pon/poff], to dial,
but they do not authenticate. The kppp log
says:
The system is required to authenticate itself
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Following the suggestion of Zak B. Elep,I changed
framebuffer device interface to no and got a display
of 800x600. However, among all the installed programs,
there was nothing to dial onto the internet. I assumed
that I had done something wrong in the initial
install.
Being less sophisticated
I have two problems left.
1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp, to dial, but
they do not authenticate. The kppp log says:
The system is required to authenticate itself
but I cannot find any suitable secret (password) for
it to use to do so.
(None of the available passwords would let it use an
Using VESA and the lowest resolution, 640x400 (I
think), I am now able to get into the graphics mode.
However, I now have the same problem with woody that
caused me to give up on potato. Everything is so big
that the system is unusable. You always need something
that is off the screen.
I am able
Kent West wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
1) I am not sure how it happened, but /etc/inittab is
now set at run level 2. Therefore, I boot into text
mode.
That's the default on Debian. Redhat and friends
pre-configure
different
run levels, whereas Debian leaves this for the
administrator to do
Kent West wrote:
Sidney Brooks wrote:
2) I have Windows XP, Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian
partitions.
Everything but Debian works. The boot loader is
Mandrake lilo.
HOWEVER, I CANNOT TAKE LILO OUT. In what may or
may not be a
related problem, if I uninstall lilo, when I
I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything
went smoothly until I tried to use it after the
installation. All I get is a blank screen and a frozen
computer. I think that my problem is a video card that
linux does not like, S3 Pro-Savage KM133. Any
suggestions as to how I can make things
Although one person answered the message below, I
never saw it posted. In case something strange
happened, I am trying it again.
I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything
went smoothly until I tried to use it after the
installation. All
that it was useless. With it, I could get into the
text mode which I cannot do with woody.
For the record, RedHat gives me no trouble
Sidney Brooks wrote:
Although one person answered the message below, I
never saw it posted. In case something strange
happened, I am trying it again
The situation gets stranger and stranger. For
completeness, I have repeated the problem below. None
of the suggestions helped. Whether I used the boot
floppy or installation CD, I ended up with a blank
screen and frozen computer.
Then, for no sensible reason, I put Debian in the lilo
boot loader
I gave more hard disk space to Debian and therefore had to reinstall it.
When I reinstalled two programs that worked before, I got library error
messages. I then ran ldd and got:
a.out or ELF
What does this mean and what do I do about it?
I ran ldd on programs that do work and got the usual
I decided to reinstall the Debian package xdm since it wasn't working,
using dpkg. When I tried, I got the error message:
unable to fill /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i with padding: No space left on
device
This suggests that the new files that I downloaded were so large that they
filled my hard
I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how
to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as
long as I do not go into graphics.
This is how it all happened. I downloaded some files using Debian and then
transferred them to Windows
In response to my problem, I received the following.
I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how
to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as
long as I do not go into graphics.
This is how it all happened. I downloaded some files
I got myself in trouble by playing around with the
window manager. I changed from icewm to enlightenment.
Now, I find that enlightenment is not as good and I
want to go back to icewm. In older versions of Debian,
all you had to do was edit /etc/X11/window-managers.
With potato, I do not have this
I still have troubles. Following noahm, I used
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager to
reset the window manager to icewm. Despite this
change, when I shut down and restarted, it still went
into enlightenment.
When I used locate .xsession, the only thing that I
found was .xsession-errors.
Following Ano Nim, I created /home/.xinitrc with the
text icewm and,lo and behold, when I start Debian, I
still get enlightenment.
I am not sure what to do with the meassage from
Stephen Gran. I downloaded the attachment and have a
binary file that I don't know how to handle.
The gnome
Enlightenment does not yield easily.
To give .xinitrc a full chance, I used chmod +x on it,
rebooted, and still got enlightenment.
Then, I followed the guidance of Shawn Lamson. I
created /home/.xsession with the text icewm and after
saving it, I used chmod +x. When I rebooted, I still
got
Here is a new twist. When I log in as root, I get
enlightenment, despite all the suggested changes. When
I log in as a user, I get icewm.
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of enlightenment.The home directory for root is not
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directory, I got the icewm back.
Thanks to all who tried to help.
For those of you who tried to help with my problem, several weeks ago, here
is a statement of the problem and solution.
I have Windows98, Redhat linux, and Debian linux on my hard disk. Until
last summer, I could get online with all three. During the summer something
happened and only Windows
The lilo problem is solved . I unintentionally typed something into
password that I intended for another line.
pppconfig will not solve my minicom and wvdial problem. pppconfig enables
pon to work and get me on line now.
Answers to questions posed.
1.) Why would you want to use wvdial when pon works? wvdial is just a hack
that tries to avoid making you set up pon.
It may be a personal peculiarity, but I like everything to work.
2.) It's been a long time since I used minicom, but am I totally wrong in
I have tried every suggestion posted on this web site, including the latest
by csj and Robert Ruzback.
It seems that I have two choices: give up on linux or buy a new computer.
Since my computer is less than two years old, I do not plan to buy a new
computer soon.
Redhat and Debian on two
More answers.
For Eamon Roque
The last line of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets does in fact have username*password,
both of which are correct.
For Steve Kowalik
file /boot/vmlinuztab gave me:
vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17
As I comparison, I did the same thing on my Redhat
John Hasler wrote;
This, however, is proof that you have both the kernel ppp driver and the
pppd daemon installed and working. I'd guess from what you have posted
that you have been configuring for CHAT authentication and your ISP wants
you to use PAP. Does the line of meaningless symbols
Kent West has suggested as a help to my would be helpers, I summarize where
I stand now.
The printer problem in Debian has been solved, with the explanation that I
gave in an earlier posting. Briefly what happened was that lilo put the
Redhat kernel into the Debian startup.
My internet
Eamon Roque asked:
Nonetheless: what does your authentification process look like? Do you
require the host to authenticate itself, do you agree on a protocol (
usually in /etc/ppp/options )?
The following is a list of uncommented things in /etc/ppp/options:
auth
crtscts
Andrew Perrin asked:
- What's the output of lsmod?
nls_cp437
lp
parport_pc
unix
Although ppp is not here, when I type insmod ppp, the response is that I
already have the newest version.
- Once you connect, what's the output of:
I can only use wvdial
More information for Andrew Perrin.
Using minicom, I was able to stay connected.
ipchains -a
invalid option
route -n
still headings, but no data
nslookup www.debian.org
nslookup command not found
ping -c 198.186.203.20
ping:send to:Network is unreachable
t 03:14 PM 6/4/01 +1000, you wrote:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:43AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered:
What is the output of ls -l /vmlinuz on your Debian root partition?
file /boot/vmlinuz-tab
Would also be very helpful.
That will tell which version of the kernel you are running.
But, a
Nick wrote:
[snip]
I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is
2.0.38-2.0.38-3.
Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your
kernel version *can't* be right - I'm running Debian 2.2r2 which came
with kernel 2.2.18pre?, and which I've recently updated
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
Then /sbin/modprobe -v ppp
Response: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Run depmod -a as root to fix that particular problem.
I ran
Thanks to Steve Kowalik, who wrote the following, the problem if not the
solution is becoming clear.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:35:35PM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
I ran depmod -a as root and got:
Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep for writing.
Again the number seems
Thanks to good advice here, I have solved my printer problem.
When it became clear that lilo was loading the wrong kenel, I removed
Debian and Redhat from my computer. I then cleaned out mbr.
I reinstalled Debian. The kernel is now 2.2.19 pre17. I used the echo
method and it printed.
Answers to recent questions.
After using wvdial, the contents of /var/log/messages:
syslog 1.3-3# 33.1: restart
Output of lsmod:
ppp Size 203000
When I give command pon, I just get:
/usr/sbin/pppd: proxyarp option is disabled.
It is not clear to me what is meant by -am line in
In case it may be of help to someone in the future, this is how I got into
my printer troubles.
I installed Windows98, Redhat 6.2, and Debian Potato on three separate
partitions of my hard drive. I dutifully made boot floppies for Redhat and
Debian. However, Redhat gives you no choice about
Answer to questions by Kent West.
The printer does not work. The echo test failed. Printer does work with
Redhat, therefore is not win-printer.
Possibility of damage by lightning strike. Modem works with Windows and Beos.
My ISP administrator used his own modem.
Minicom says
More answers.
when I ran ismod parport, the response was ismod command not found.
I ran pppconfig in the standard way, ending with the write and finish
command.I then ran pon and got (it is verbose):
ioctl(TIOCSETU):Invalid argument (22)
/usr/bin/ppp: This system lacks kernel support for
This is a response to Lance Simmons.
When I reinstalled Debian yesterday, I installed the modules in the order
that you give: parport, parport_pc, and lp. After each I got the message
installation succeeded. Is there any point in going through the insmod
sequence?
To: Eamon Roque
The logs that you want are in my 11:06 AM 6/2/01 posting.
I cannot echo anything.
To: Jonathan D. Pro(rest not printed in my email)
Redhat problems with dialing, e.g. kppp, gnome-ppp ,are the same as with
Debian.
As far as I know, Redhat does not have the ppp module.
The
I attempted to follow the installation guide written by Mark Stone.
When I got to the module installation, I tried to install the lp module.
Using the autoprobe, the message was installation failed.
I then looked up my printer data in Windows:
input/output range 0378-037B
input/output range
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
In answer to some questions.
My ISP connection is dialup.
When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get
the message installation failed. I think that I succeeded at one time
afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer
was shown.
Testing
More information.
I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all
dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet.
As for my printer problem, I think that the facts that the printer is
absent from dmesg and the echo test failed, shows that higher
I would like to make the following observation in response to some of the
suggestions that I have read. In response to my persistence, my ISP
administrator, who is not interested in linux, set up Redhat linux on his
computer, doing nothing but a straightforward installation with none of the
In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc
modules. After that I was able to install the lp module.
Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of Debian,
the result was the same. The printer does not appear in dmesg and the echo
system for printing
Following your suggestions, I have installed the parport and lp modules and
changed the BIOS to make the parallel port bidirectional. Windows
recognized the printer port change. Debian still will not print. When using
echo to tell it to print, it says no such device to both /lp0 and /lp1.
As
Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed.
About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this
installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at the
time of installation was installation successful.
I have successfully installed
After writing of my printer troubles several days ago and following every
suggestion without success, I decided that my problem was that I had a
vendor version of Debian potato. I then bought an official version and my
Debian program still will not print.
I have Windows, Redhat, and Debian on
When I tried modprobe lp, as suggested, I got the message:
Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules. (no such file
or directory)
I am just about ready to give up on Debian 2.2. I did not have this kind of
trouble with earlier versions of Debian. What I really don't
I have the 2.2.17 kernel, but get the error message that I previously gave
with modprobe lp.
For the record, I do have RedHat on another partition and the printing
works perfectly.
I got my Debian disks from Cheap Bytes (from which I also got Redhat, which
works). I doubt that they could
I have already discussed my woes under Two Problems. I have now changed
from magicfilter to apsfilter. When I tried to print the test page, I
received the message: /dev/lp0 : no such device. The device /lp0 appears in
the /dev directory. It seems that the failure of the system to recognize my
If anybody can tell me what to do, I now have more information on my problems.
Printer problem:
I use magicfilterconfig to configure /etc/printcap. After finishing
the configuration, I get these messages:
Use of unintialized value at /usr/bin/magicfilterconfig line
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