On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:08 am, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > Installed Mepis at Newbie meeting at Clickers, but did not spend much > time trying to get card to work. ? Could see signal strength, network, etc. > but not connect on a couple of tries. ?Card originally worked well in clone > shop, but then wouldn't at cafe or Clickers. >
Bring it in on Monday and we'll try the Clicker's network. Cafe networks are hit and miss, regardless of what software you use. My Windoze using classmates have as much trouble or more than I do connecting to campus and cafe networks. > Maybe I can get back to project this weekend. ?Don't like having to keep > Windoze, but my laser printer won't work without it. ?So I leave files to > print in a common partition from Linux. CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, works about everything, and we have a walkthrough. Printers on Xandros can be found in the first fifteen slides here: http://lists.clickers.org/~linuxsig/events/2005_05_16_basic_xandros_configuration/part_2/siframes.html Mepis uses KDE's Print Manager, which is similar and can be worked by trial and error. There's a place where you can test the printer driver you have chosen and go back to chose another one if your choices don't work. Typically, the first or second choice does it. CUPS gives you almost all of the printer's Windoze capability and sometimes more in an easy to use GUI interface. You may be cursed with one of the few printers CUPS does not deal with, in which case what you are doing is best: Print out to PDF on a shared partition. Sometimes, if you have a fancy post script HP, you don't need a driver at all and can print to it as a raw device.
