Linux-Hardware Digest #501, Volume #14 Mon, 19 Mar 01 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
This is a test. This is only a test. ("Colin G.")
IBM EtherJet ISA NIC ("Colin G.")
Re: Lucent Orinoco wavelan with 2.4 kernel (alexander sixt)
Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless (alexander sixt)
A Feq Questions On Sound Drivers (Young4ert)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with tar ("Alberto Tarantino")
Re: KT7A RAID et Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Optimizing Kernel & System for AMD Durons ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-R for backups ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCTV card won't work (Martigan)
Linux 7.0 on NoteBook ("Raymond Chia")
Notebook Support ("Raymond Chia")
How to boot CD-ROM on old system? (Laurence Tyler)
Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know (Johan Kullstam)
Re: How to boot CD-ROM on old system? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Oki 320T & Decwriter printers on RH 6.1 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Colin G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This is a test. This is only a test.
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:15:07 GMT
This is a test. This is only a test.
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| |\_/| | Colin G. |
| (o o) | coling (at) intrive (dot) com |
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| \-/ | Debian 2.2 r2 w/ Kernel 2.4.2 |
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From: "Colin G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM EtherJet ISA NIC
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:21:19 GMT
I'm using an IBM EtherJet ISA NIC on one of my 486s. I had FreeBSD 2.1.1
installed prior to attempting to install a distribution of linux. Here's the
problem I'm having. Under FreeBSD, I had no trouble getting the card to
work. In fact, I did an FTP install of the OS. I have turned off the PnP on
the card, and used the PC-DOS diskette to manually set the configuration
for:
I/O 0x300
IRQ 5
I've tried a number of kernel modules, including ne.o (ISA NE2000). Any
suggestions on what to try next?
Thanks for the help,
Colin
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| |\_/| | Colin G. |
| (o o) | coling (at) intrive (dot) com |
| |/V\| | |
| \-/ | Debian 2.2 r2 w/ Kernel 2.4.2 |
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From: alexander sixt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco wavelan with 2.4 kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:39:24 +0100
Hi,
You need the wvlan_cs driver which comes with the latest pcmcia packages.
Wavelan2_cs doesnt work at the moment with 2.4.
wvlan_cs also supports most of the wireless-tools features.
Don�t forget to compile the pcmncia package.
Good luck
Alexander Sixt
Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to compile the drivers for the Lucent Orinoco wavelan card
> (it's part of th pcmcia_cs package) with the 2.4.2 kernel, but I'm
> having some trouble. The driver itself is an adiditional client added
> to pcmcia_cs before compiling.
> This works fine in the 2.2 series klernel, but not in 2.4. When I try
> to compile the pcmcia package, all the incuded drivers compile fine,
> but wavelan2_cs fails miserably with dozens of errormessages on
> missing symbols etc.
>
> Has anyone gotten this to work (with kernel 2.4.x)?
>
> thanks
>
> Hans-Christian
>
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From: alexander sixt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:48:40 +0100
Joe wrote:
> If I boot with the card in, the machine hangs after starting pcmcia
> (beeps once). If I leave the card out, it boots ok, but hangs when I
> insert the card (beeps once).
>
> Other posts have suggested port or IRQ conflicts, so I've made some
> modifications to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, but to no avail.
>
> Info:
> Redhat 6.2, kernel upgraded 2.2.16
> pcmcia-cs-3.1.18
>
> etc/pcmcia/config:
> device "wvlan_cs"
> class "network" module "wvlan_cs"
> card "D-Link DWL-650"
> manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
> bind "wvlan_cs
>
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
> include port x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff
> include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff
> include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
> #Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
> include port 0xa00-0xaff
> #First built-in serial port
> exclude irq4
> #Second built-in serial port - i tried commenting this out
> exclude irq3
> #First built-in parallel port - i tried uncommenting this
> #exclude irq7
> #PS/2
> exclude irq12
> #add for my dwl-650 card
> module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=3 network_name WLAN"
> #add these to resolve possible conflicts???
> exclude port0x0100-0x013f
> exclude port0x1000-0x17ff
>
> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
> ESSID="WLAN"
> MODE="auto"
> CHANNEL=1
> RATE="auto"
> IWCONFIG="nickname awlaptop"
>
> /var/log/messages after boot with card installed:
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon pcmcia: modules
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.18
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: kernel build: 2.2.16-3smp #1 SMP Mon
> Jun 19 19:00:35 EDT 2000
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at
> 0xfbde0
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: 00:03.0 -> irq 11
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: 00:03.1 -> irq 11
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: TI 1420 rev 00 PCI-to-CardBus at slot
> 00:03, mem 0x68000000
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci &
> irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 32/34]
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci &
> irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 35/37]
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10 PCI
> status changes
> Mar 16 16:16:52 falcon pcmcia: cardmgr.
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: starting, version is 3.1.18
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon inet: inetd startup succeeded
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: watching 2 sockets
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean.
>
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
> excluding 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
>
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: initializing socket 1
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
> clean.
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: socket 1: D-Link DWL-650
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon keytable: Loading keymap:
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs
> port_type=3 network_name WLAN'
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver
> v1.0.4
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 4,
> io 0x0180-0x01bf
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice wvlan0
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 8 9 10 11
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on wvlan0 is 00
> 40 05 ac 07 1f
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon cardmgr[437]: executing: './network start
> wvlan0'
> Mar 16 16:16:53 falcon keytable: Loading
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
> Mar 16 16:16:54 falcon cardmgr[437]: + SIOCSIWMODE: Invalid argument
>
>
Hi,
I think all what you have to do is to confugure wvlan0 with "ifconfig" .
man ifconfigure will give you the details.
Godd luck
Alex Sixt
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Feq Questions On Sound Drivers
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:34:40 GMT
Hi,
My Linux system is composed of an Asus K7M mobo and Voodoo3 3500 TV/AGP
video board. I have installed ALSA drivers on it and I can listen to the
music. When I did "cat /proc/asound/sndstat", it returned the following:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.10b emulation code)
Kernel: Linux toba 2.4.2 #1 Thu Mar 1 10:33:08 EST 2001 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
VIA 82C686A at 0xd800, irq 10
Audio devices:
0: VIA 82C686A (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
I have a couple of questions:
1. Why the "Installed drivers:" reported an emulation of "Type 10: ALSA"?
2. What does it mean by "Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG" and "Mixers:
NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG"? Is it part of the kernel CONFIG?
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:36:50 GMT
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>
> "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Fred wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >Damn the performance issues; the ATA- Standards group is trying to place
> > >commands in the ATA spec to prevent you from storing certain data types
> > >on them, and place an unique ID on each and every disk, and implement a
> > >command to disable the disk by their software... ala the Intel debacle.
> > >www.cryptome.org
> >
> >
> > That initaitive must be resisted with all possible fervor.
>
> IBM might be jumping off that train, there was some news at
> www.userlocal.com.
>
> --
> Stefano - Hodie quinto Nonas Martias MMI est
They are doing the same thing with sound cards. Mirco$oft is trying to
get the audio producers to use their standard that will not play audio
files on an unauthorized sound card. Go to www.maximumlinux.com to read
about this.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:52:12 GMT
If you had read the documentation before compiling your kernel you would
have known that the NCR53c8xx was the driver to use. I have been using a
Tekram 390F for years without problem. I recently got a Yamaha CDRW and
have not made one coaster because of hardware problems. In fact, I could
not be happier with my setup.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: "Alberto Tarantino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with tar
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:07:41 +0100
Hi all,
I run a netfinity server with linux on it and I always get the following
werror while trying to make a backupo using tar:
Mar 19 12:12:20 nero kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x3c,
Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Mar 19 12:12:20 nero kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write
errors
Mar 19 12:12:20 nero kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1,
Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Mar 19 12:12:20 nero kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write
errors
the tape has been replaced but the errors remain...
Thanks for your help
Alberto Tarantino
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KT7A RAID et Linux
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:04:09 GMT
Luca wrote:
>
> "Torsten Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Try Mandrake 7.2
> >
> > It installed ok on my KT7A Raid using IDE4, although I had to turn
> > off the "autotune" kernel option in Grub/Lilo to get it to boot
> > with the 2.2.x kernel.
>
> Torsten, I have the same setup on my computer. Linux run fine from hdg
> (master, 4th IDE channel), but I need to boot from a floppy. LILO hangs on
> LI. So here's my question: how did you turn off the "autotune" option for
> Lilo?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luca
If your bootup halts at LI try this: The next time you boot from floppy,
after the OS comes up, from the command line type lilo. The next time
you start your computer try to boot without the floppy. Everytime I've
had this problem this procedure has fixed it.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Optimizing Kernel & System for AMD Durons
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:12:34 GMT
"Greg H." wrote:
>
> This link might be helpful: http://www.athlonlinux.org/
>
> I don't have any Athlon-based systems, though, so I can't comment on it.
>
> Greg
Heh, heh! I could not believe that this site actually had a banner for
web accelerator. Why, Linux is the best web accelerator I've ever seen.
;)
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-R for backups
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:19:58 GMT
"Johannes B. Ullrich" wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I am looking for good linux backup software that supports CD-R drives.
> Any recommendations?
webmin! Sorry don't know the url, but a quick search will find it. The
CDR backup might be a contributed module so you'll have to download it
along with webmin. It is very easy to configure and add modules to.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: Martigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCTV card won't work
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:23:52 GMT
Andy Walker wrote:
> I'm running an Athelon 600 and a PCTV Pinnacle card that dual boots with
> Win98.
> It works fine in Windows but whatever I do in Linux regardless of what
> software I use it just locks up my machine.
> I'm using Mandrake7.2 which has xawtv and kwintv installed but it makes no
> difference which. I get sound (though only static) then the system locks
> up and I have to re-boot.
> I've tried it on an AMD K6-2 450 and the same problem occurs. The programs
> seem to start up ok but thats about it. I've even tried loading new
> versions of the software to no avail.
> Am I doing something wrong in setting it up and does anyone have any help.
> I'm in England so I don't know what tuning data I need, England is PAL
> whereas I think Western Europe is SECAM so could this be a factor?
>
>
try http://mimms.sourceforge.net/ the program on there might help ya out.
And I know Italy,Germany, Sloveina and so on are PAL not Secam.
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From: "Raymond Chia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 7.0 on NoteBook
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:48:44 +0800
Hi there,
I am planning to get a notebook that supports Linux Redhat 7.0 version. I
went for a recent PC fair and approached some technical staff from
Toshiba,IBM,HP & DELL on the support for the installation, but to my
surprise none of them are sure about Linux OS. Can someone tell me which
model of Notebook supports the installation for Linux Redhat version 6 or
ver 7 series ,and whether does it supports USB Floppy Diskette Drive?
Thanks!!!
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From: "Raymond Chia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notebook Support
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:50:23 +0800
Hi there,
I am planning to get a notebook that supports Linux Redhat 7.0 version. I
went for a recent PC fair and approached some technical staff from
Toshiba,IBM,HP & DELL on the support for the installation, but to my
surprise none of them are sure about Linux OS. Can someone tell me which
model of Notebook supports the installation for Linux Redhat version 6 or
ver 7 series ,and whether does it supports USB Floppy Diskette Drive?
Thanks!!!
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:53:52 +0000
From: Laurence Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to boot CD-ROM on old system?
Hi!
Does anyone know whether it is possible to boot a 'bootable' (El Torito)
CD-ROM on an old system without 'boot from CD-ROM' support in the BIOS?
For a given CD (eg: a Linux distro) there is undoubtedly a specific boot
diskette, but it should be possible to have a 'generic' boot floppy that
snarfs the actual boot disk image from the CD (having first located it)
and then somehow continues booting from that (possibly as a ramdisk).
This should work with any bootable CD... or am I missing something?
I'm sure someone, somewhere must already have done this...
Any clues?
Cheers,
Laurence.
--
Laurence Tyler | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PhD Researcher (Neural Nets & Robotics) | Web: www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~lgt
Centre for Computational Intelligence | Tel: +44-(0)116-2551551 x8408
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK | Fax: +44-(0)116-2541891
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Subject: Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Mar 2001 09:56:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If you had read the documentation before compiling your kernel you would
> have known that the NCR53c8xx was the driver to use. I have been using a
> Tekram 390F for years without problem. I recently got a Yamaha CDRW and
> have not made one coaster because of hardware problems. In fact, I could
> not be happier with my setup.
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT
Genuine SYMBIOS boards use GPIO0 in output for controller LED and GPIO3
bit as a flag indicating singled-ended/differential interface.
If all the boards of your system are genuine SYMBIOS boards or use
BIOS and drivers from SYMBIOS, you would want to enable this option.
This option must NOT be enabled if your system has at least one 53C8XX
based scsi board with a vendor-specific BIOS.
For example, Tekram DC-390/U, DC-390/W and DC-390/F scsi controllers
use a vendor-specific BIOS and are known to not use SYMBIOS compatible
GPIO wiring. So, this option must not be enabled if your system has
such a board installed.
i think you can use the sym8xx driver as long as you don't set it to
assume symbios compatibility.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
sysengr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How to boot CD-ROM on old system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:56:38 GMT
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:53:52 +0000, Laurence Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>Does anyone know whether it is possible to boot a 'bootable' (El Torito)
>CD-ROM on an old system without 'boot from CD-ROM' support in the BIOS?
>
>For a given CD (eg: a Linux distro) there is undoubtedly a specific boot
>diskette, but it should be possible to have a 'generic' boot floppy that
>snarfs the actual boot disk image from the CD (having first located it)
>and then somehow continues booting from that (possibly as a ramdisk).
>This should work with any bootable CD... or am I missing something?
>
>I'm sure someone, somewhere must already have done this...
>
>Any clues?
I haven't done this, but I'd bet that you could
- make a LILO bootdisk on diskette, which
- boots the CDROM image.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Oki 320T & Decwriter printers on RH 6.1 ?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:05:26 GMT
Brian Richardson wrote:
>
> Does anyone know which printer drivers/filters installed on a typical RH 6.1
> (2.2.12-20 kernel) load
> will support Okidata ML 320T and Decwriter III printers ? Using printtool
> from Gnome
> doesn't specifically list either of these in the printer filter list, and I
> couldn't find references
> to either when I looked through the various related file manually from the
> command line.
> A couple of older Epson dot matrix printers have been installed and work
> just fine.
>
> Each of these will be printing only simple text. This machine is a
> production dbms server, so I
> have to be a bit careful about any changes I make (e.g.,
> installing/upgrading/recompiling any modules, etc)
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Brian
In the apsfilter setup program I find the following:
declj250 - CalComp Raster Format
ibmpro - IBM 9-pin Proprinter
jetp3852 - IBM JetPrinter ink-jet color (Model #3852)
la50 - DEC LA50 printer
la70 - DEC LA70 printer
la70t - DEC LA70 printer with low resol, text enhancement
la75 - DEC LA75 printer
la75plus - DEC LA75plus printer
ln03 - DEC LN03 printer
lj250 - DEC LJ250 Companion color printer
necp6 - NEC P6/P6+/P60, 360x360 DPI resol
oki182 - Okidata MicroLine 182
okiibm - Okidata MicroLine IBM-compatible printers
Please beaware that most newer Linux distros do not include support for
dot matrix printers with the ghostscript that is installed. If the
support is not there you have to compile ghostscript youeself with the
support added. You could read
/usr/share/ghostscript/xxx/doc/devices.htm. You might also want to get a
good printer utility like apsfilter and install it. Apsfilter will tell
you what printers are supported by the ghostscript you have installed.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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