Linux-Misc Digest #970, Volume #18 Wed, 10 Feb 99 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Help, ISP setup! (DM)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2 ("Quinn")
Re: terminal info (Bob Hauck)
Re: Please Help, ISP setup! (Clifford Kite)
Re: File Type Application Association - How? (Ville Voutilainen)
Re: ide tape with taper? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Re: Install Help!! (Chad M. Townsend)
Re: gpm and mouse (Perry Grieb)
Re: what's the difference between desktop/window-manager (Chetan Ahuja)
Network performance 3c589c ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Simple but sweet. a.out is not my friend ("josh richard")
Re: > 64MB RAM (Joel Shellman)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? ("Keith G. Murphy")
Re: Linux printing problem (Mihai Moise)
fetchmail with kerberos problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Michael Powe)
Re: HP Dat Drive (Simon Faulkner)
Re: Linux printing problem (Mihai Moise)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DM)
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Help, ISP setup!
Date: 10 Feb 1999 03:59:06 GMT
I had the same problem in winNT netscape.
Try entering the IP NUMBER (ie. 141.114.22.12) not the name
(ie.proxy.state.as.us) of the proxy in the Netscape advanced options.
You'd think it wouldn't matter
This worked for me.
Make sure that you know the proper port that the proxy is using too.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:07:45 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently
scribe:
:> But the 1941 enigma decoding machine wasn't called colossus. It was called
:> the "Bombe". It was a purely mechanical device.
:>
: Gee...can anyone tell me the difference between a vacuum tube and an
: electronic valve? I always thought they were the same. You say elevator, I
: say lift.
Can anyone tell the difference between a cog and a vacuum tube? (Valve).
The 1941 bombe was a MECHANICAL device. Colossus came later.
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From: "Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.warez.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:01:05 -0500
Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2
I am very new to Linux so please bear with my ignorance and newbie
questions. The Redhat 5.1 installation from Que seemed clean and
straightforward. I gave up on the installation automatically selecting my
actual components (as I get a locked black screen):
Actual Components:
PS2 (MS IntelliMouse)
DEC Compatible NIC
Optiquest V95 monitor
STB Velocity 128
Question: Is the black screen considered a virtual terminal?
Several from the newsgroups suggested that I use xf86config to set up X so I
did.
? If I go through and pick all generic devices, X will start but at a
unbearable 320 x 320 resolution.
? If I go through and pick 800x600 and the STB Velocity etc� I still get
the unbearable resolution
? Sometimes if I pick some various combinations of resolution and Video , x
will lock. When I say pick various combinations, they are combinations of
generic drivers and settings that the monitor can actually handle.
Question: Is there a quick and easy Windoze way of changing resolution in
X?
I have listened to your suggestions on (CTRL)+(alt)+(+/- on the keypad) but
I get no response, both when the screen remains black as well as when I am
in the unbearable 320x320 resolution.
When I exit x I see a bunch of notes on the screen regarding the setup and
(**) with the selections that were made. Showing that 8 bit color depth,
320x320 has been selected etc�.
1.) Where can I edit manually?
2.) How Can I see previous page upon exiting X? (page up command?)
3.) Could it be a keyboard problem? I am picking a standard 101 keyboard
in the xf86config setup. The Keyboard is a ps2 NMB????
4.) Could cards in the PC not recognized screw around with the setup.
Example sound Card, Cable Modem card, and the modem?
Thank you for your time
Quinn
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: terminal info
Date: 10 Feb 1999 03:17:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Evan Griffing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Specifically, I want to use xemacs in text mode over the
>internet, but when I start xemacs from an xterm, nothing happens
>- presumably it starts in graphic mode opening a window on the
>host machine.
Try "emacs -nw" or "unset DISPLAY" (assuming bash is your shell).
--
Bob Hauck, Software Engineer - Will program for food.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Please Help, ISP setup!
Date: 9 Feb 1999 10:02:14 -0600
Prasanth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Let me explain the problem. Iam having linux slackware
: distribution. My ISP has provided me with the
: following information.
: proxy server proxy.pacific.net.sg
: WWW server www.pacific.net.sg
: pop mail server name pacific.net.sg
: I have managed to set up the PPP connection with ISP. Each time i
: connect, the IP addrress of the remote is different.
: Now i wan't to go to internet.I ping proxy.pacific.net.sg in win95
: and got the ip address. Then i went to linux and configured netscape
: proxy with this ip address and tried to connect. But it cannot. In linux
: i cannot ping using name(eg proxy.pacific.net.sg)or configure netscape
: with proxy name. I also found that in win95 enviornment, for each
: session i have different ip address for proxy.pacific.net.sg. Also
: please tell me what should i put in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and
: the /etc/HOSTNAME file, in this situation
Try putting
nameserver 192.169.33.3
in /etc/resolv.conf
and
ns.pacific.net.sg 192.169.33.3
in /etc/hosts
This is the nameserver that nslookup finds for pacific.net.sg .
: Even after succsessfully setting up the PPP with ISP, I cannot go to
: internet or read mails. PLEASE HELP ME TO SORT OUT THIS MESS.
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* I gave up on politics when no matter who I voted for, I regretted it.
* -- Pepper...and Salt, WSJ */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville Voutilainen)
Subject: Re: File Type Application Association - How?
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:18:22 GMT
David J. DeFrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>How do I associate an application to a specific filetype in Linux? I want
>the GIMP to open automatically when I click on a .jpg file, for instance.
>TIA.
Get kernel 2.2.1 or 2.0.36 and study binfmt_misc thoroughly.
And, of course, ignore the 'file manager specific' crap that
some people like to pose. ;)
Disclaimer: binfmt_misc is not a per-user system, although
a little (user-space) programming can make it into one.
-VJV-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ide tape with taper?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 08:39:22 GMT
I'm in the same boat as you. I've got RH 5.2 (2.0.36) with hdd <-> ht0
detecting the HP Colorado 5Gb drive, but ide-tape seems to choak as follows:
*** Unsupported command in request queue
*** Block device should not be used for data transfer
*** Use the character device interfaces
*** /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0 instead
*** (Run linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide to create them)
*** Aborting request...
Sure would like to get this working, but understand if it's not compatible.
Could you let me know if anyone has this drive working? Thanks. :)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Hunter wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:37:50 -0600, in comp.os.linux.misc,
> > John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >After poking through dejanews I decided that I should be
> > >able to use an HP-Colorado 5GB IDE tape drive with linux.
> > >Other people have reported it to work, anyway. Well, I have
> > >it installed now, and my kernel(2.0.34)/modules compiled for
> > >IDE tape support but it doesn't work. The drive is detected
> > >at boot time but I get a message that the drive is not
> > >supported:
> >
> > >Has anybody managed to get this stuff to work? Is there a
> > >newer version of the IDEtape driver that supports this
> > >device? If so, where?
> >
> > My tape drive (HP Colorado 8G) works fine under everything since
> > 2.1.128 under SCSI emulation -- although taper had some other errors,
> > which other software wasn't bothered by. Using IDE-tape directly
> > also worked, but was plagued by some strange bugs (SMP-linked) the last
> > time I tried it.
> >
> > The error you received (about the device not being supported) is what
> > you should see under 2.0.x kernels, so far as I know.
>
> Do you have the ide-tape support included at all? Is there
> new source for the SCSI emulation that supports these drives
> better than what I have with kernel 2.0.34?
>
> I'm considering going to kernel v2.2.x but am reluctant to
> make any major system changes until I get a reliable backup.
>
> Thanks...
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 10 Feb 1999 04:29:57 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joseph Totleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:43:28 -0600, Paul Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Eugene O'Neil wrote:
>>> >I don't know what school you went to, or how old you are, but that silly pledge
>>> >dissappeared back in the 50's or 60's...
>>>
>>> If it dissapeared before I was born, why do I remember doing it?
>>
>>Past lives? :-)
>
>I'm still in high school, and we still say the pledge.
Well, don't! It rots your brain, and increases your bogon generation
rate by a factor of four or so.
--
Julian T J Midgley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trinity Hall, Cambridge | Excession: http://excession.ucam.org
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple,
neat, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken)
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From: Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Help!!
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 03:59:36 GMT
Pramod Mulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having some problems in installation through FTP.
> I tried many sites. I was able to do it earlier. But now it retrieves
> the hdlist file ... but when it tries to get the 'base/comps' file....
> it gives the following message :
>
> "I cannot get '<path>/base/comps : Error setting remote server to
> passive mode"
>
> Do I have to make any changes to my machine. I am using a ethernet card
> and a StaticIP to connect to the net.
>
> Please help !!
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Pramod Mulay
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Spend the $49 bucks and buy it on CD, you'll be glad you did, you can
install it as many times as you like.
-chad
========================================================
Chad M. Townsend Virtual Community Network, Inc.
Chief Technical Officer Your Local Community Online!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Grieb)
Subject: Re: gpm and mouse
Date: 5 Feb 1999 17:55:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have RedHat 5.2 and i have just upgraded the Kernel to 2.2.0.
> I have a mouse that uses /dev/cua1. When i exit X-Windows i get
> this message:
>
> (gpm) used obsolete /dev/cua1 update software to use /dev/ttyS1
Is there anything related to the mouse in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config file?
Does "ls -l /dev/mo*" show mouse and modem as symbolic
links to tty devices? Something like...
cd /dev
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 mouse
--
Perry Grieb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's the difference between desktop/window-manager
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:56:59 -0500
Hi Ben,
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It clears up a lot of stuff.
I think I'll try the KDE one of these days when I have time to kill...
Chetan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Network performance 3c589c
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:39:26 GMT
I have a gateway 9100 with a 3com 3c598C network card. I am getting a lot of
errors and dropped packets. Is this common? After ftping a 1M file to my
machine I report 40000 errors and 800 dropped packets. This seems excessive
to me.
My question is: Is the driver for this card buggy and bad or is it in my
network???
Please e-mail me replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Just some background info. I am running kernel 2.2.2 with pcmcia 3.0.8
tools. I am on a switched network and I am doing my timings on a quite
network w/ only 5 idle machines on the subnet. Here is some other info.
{localhost 28} /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by 3c589_cs 5792 1 opl3
10252 0 opl3sa2 3400 0 ad1848 14344 0 [opl3sa2] mpu401 17656 0
[opl3sa2] ds 5460 2 [3c589_cs] i82365 19212 2 pcmcia_core 29260 0
[3c589_cs ds i82365] {localhost 29} /sbin/ifconfig lo Link encap:Local
Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP
LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 TX packets:0 errors:21448 dropped:168 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:A6:BF:21
inet addr:128.160.119.9 Bcast:128.160.119.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:97046 dropped:1446 overruns:0
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
Thanks in advance.
Matt
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From: "josh richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Simple but sweet. a.out is not my friend
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:41:47 -0600
I have compiled a c program using the gcc compiler in red hat 5.2. After
the compilation is complete, I have an executable created called a.out. I
type a.out to run the program and get the following error
"bash - command a.out not found"
Any ideas why?
Thank you
-j
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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:17:57 +0000
From: Joel Shellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: > 64MB RAM
Kaustav Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> How do I tell Linux (Redhat5.2) that I have 128MB RAM? At the moment
> when I top, it only recognises 64MB RAM. No wonder loading KDE and
> Netscape 4.5 totally mashes up the machine to 286 speeds!
>
> Kozzey
There is a directive that you need to enter into the
/etc/lilo.conf file and then rerun lilo. It's an append
directive with mem=128M or something... sorry I can't recall
the exact syntax.
--
Joel Shellman
knOcean Interactive Corporation
http://corp.knOcean.com/
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From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:31:09 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> Graham Murray wrote:
> >
> > In alt.os.linux, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > What Netscape is this. Mine seems to look and act indentical to windows.
> > > There is 1 difference, no 2. It runs faster and doesn't crash.
> >
> > 3. Netscape 4.5 on windows "auto-completes" entries typed into the
> > URL. On linux it does not and you have to type in the complete URL.
>
> An insignificant difference compared to the speed and stability issue.
> You don't use bookmarks? Why not, if you are going to a site more than
> once?
Well that's another issue: bookmarks are not as nice under X/Linux as
Windows. You don't get the nice "File Bookmark" item which lets you
stick the bookmark into whichever folder you like, instead of whatever
you've preselected as default in "Edit Bookmarks". If you want to file
under a different folder than last time, you have to go into "Edit
Bookmarks", mark that folder as the default folder for bookmarks, then
do your "Add Bookmark". *Very* inconvenient. Unless I'm missing
something.
Seems like Netscape has problems with anything involving
dynamically-sized floating dropdowns like the bookmark list. Look at
what you get with well-populated combo boxes on web pages. *Nasty*. I
wonder if it's a limitation of the toolkit they use?
And Netscape mail on Linux uses an inconveniently large font that I
don't seem to be able to change.
Does anyone have any tips on how to change the size of TrueType fonts
for web pages? (I'm using xfstt). The combo box in Netscape that
should let you select the font sizes just sticks at 0 for the TrueType
fonts.
On the plus side, you can set a logical link to your Netscape bookmarks
on your Windows partition, if you're dual-booting, and have Netscape on
Linux use your bookmarks from Windows. The downside is that once you
save a bookmark from the Linux side, a new file is created in your home
Netscape directory and the logical link is gone. You could do some
pretty easy scripting to overcome this, though.
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From: Mihai Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux printing problem
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:32:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> and yes, the printer is connected to the right p.port (LPT1, /dev/lp1)
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanx in advance,
> .:jay.
>
>
My printer used to be not working, but lp said "/dev/lp1: device not
configured."
Anyway, in case you have the same problem which I do, in newer kernels, like the
2.2.0pre4 there is a parallel port driver called parport. It assigns the first
parallel port to /dev/lp0, I mean the one which would usually be /dev/lp1 in
older kernels. You should therefore edit the file /etc/printcap to read
/dev/lp0.
See also the file Documentation/parport.txt in the kernel source for how to
configure the modules. This needs to be done too, I think, and maybe some
auto-probing too.
Tell me if this solves your problem.
Mihai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fetchmail with kerberos problem
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:36:36 GMT
I am trying to get fetchmail to work with my KPOP mail server. I have gotten
the latest fetchmail source, gotten the kerberos IV (it IS kerberos 4),
compiled both successfully (finally). I configured the .fetchmailrc but when
i run the program I get an error "kerberos error: Principal unknown
(kerberos)". Does anyone know what this means and even better how to prevent
it? Thanks
email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 09 Feb 1999 21:02:04 -0800
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>>>>> "AdmFrodos" == AdmFrodos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For my money, the worst programmers on the planet write games.
>> Every day I have reason to be glad that computer games have no
>> interest for me. I just think of all the hours I have saved by
>> not having to reconfigure my system over and over and over and
>> over ...
AdmFrodos> Actually, many people are of the opinion that some of
AdmFrodos> the finest programmers are game programmers. Where else
AdmFrodos> do you find people constantly trying to write stable
AdmFrodos> code for cutting edge systems? The guys that wrote Doom
AdmFrodos> ushered in an era, and they could only do it by being
AdmFrodos> the some of the best, most efficent C programmers
AdmFrodos> around. Now, I think that there are plently of HORRIBLE
AdmFrodos> game programmers, but the bulk of them are quite
AdmFrodos> innovative and clever. I would even venture to say that
AdmFrodos> many people (including me) are jealous. I would much
AdmFrodos> rather program games then crank out word processing
AdmFrodos> applications.
I'm not much impressed by the inductive argument in this case. One or
two percent of the programmers does not a case make.
My observation is that the majority of games are hacked-out products,
strictly commodities. And I don't care what the motivations are,
particularly, for their creation; if I have to spend day in and day
out helping people repair their systems after another lousy piece of
programming screwed it up -- what do I care for "cutting edge"
programming -- whatever that is. I suspect "innovative and clever"
means tweaking some code so that it will perform correctly only in a
certain band of platforms under certain conditions & hose everything
else.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Simon Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Dat Drive
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:04:42 +0000
IT WORKS!!!
mt -f /dev/st0 offline
mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl
Both will do the trick!
Cheers
Simon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles
Stroom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:22:43 +0000, Simon Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am using an HP Dat drive with Taper in RH5.2
>>
>>Does anyone know how I can get it to eject the tape automatically as a
>>cron job?
>>
>>My users are too stoopid to press the eject button!
>>
>
>mt -f device_file rewoffl
>
>
--
Simon Faulkner
http://www.elkstone.demon.co.uk
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From: Mihai Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux printing problem
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:41:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> and yes, the printer is connected to the right p.port (LPT1, /dev/lp1)
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanx in advance,
> .:jay.
>
>
My printer used to be not working, but lp said "/dev/lp1: device not
configured."
Anyway, in case you have the same problem which I do, in newer kernels, like the
2.2.0pre4 there is a parallel port driver called parport. It assigns the first
parallel port to /dev/lp0, I mean the one which would usually be /dev/lp1 in
older kernels. You should therefore edit the file /etc/printcap to read
/dev/lp0.
See also the file Documentation/parport.txt in the kernel source for how to
configure the modules. This needs to be done too, I think, and maybe some
auto-probing too.
Tell me if this solves your problem.
Mihai
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