Linux-Misc Digest #964, Volume #23 Sun, 26 Mar 00 17:13:04 EST
Contents:
HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: LICQ file receive using InJoy FireWall for OS/2 Warp 4 (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: connecting to internet via command line (Graffiti)
Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript (Yan Seiner)
Re: how to lock the keyboard (Robie Basak)
Re: More resolution probs (Robie Basak)
Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3? (Bob Martin)
Re: permission denied (Jaime Perez)
Athlon kernel compile (Janet)
Re: Easy JDK Linux Question?? (Juergen Kreileder)
Re: Can I use an updated Java for Linux with Netscape Communicator v4.7? (Juergen
Kreileder)
Re: Bad Fat (David Efflandt)
How do I uninstall Corel Linux ? (sven)
Re: Custom Ringing (Herb Stein)
Re: Would starting Apache while online make me... (David Efflandt)
Re: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages (Opinionated)
Re: Trouble connecting to my ISP with a modem (Opinionated)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:00:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
Would very-much appreciate any "straight-up" advice, from any
benevolent/generous Linux users, that might bring my subject-printer to
life!
Cannot get my HP LaserJet 5L b/w printer locally configured properly.
"Goes through the motions", but output pages are completely blank; no
printed chars. whatsoever.
I am a Linux newbie, with SuSE Linux 6.3 installed on my pc (has an AMD
K6-2 450MHz with 32MB PC100 SDRAM and a 4.3GB UDMA ATA/33 hard drive).
I've attempted configurations via YaST, and apsfilter. I've setup as a
device at /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 (... separately; not both active
configs., at same time). Printer drivers attempted thusfar, as a
'Postcript'-type printer, include ljet4; as an 'Other'-type printer,
include (? spelling not necessarily correct on my part. Sorry!):
ljet5gray, ljet5mono, ljet4mono, ljet4gray, pxlmono, pxlgray,
ljet4Lgray, ljet4Lmono, lj4dith.
However, upon command 'tunelp /dev/lp0' (altern. 'tunelp /dev/lp1'), I
get the following stdout: "/dev/lp0 [sic. /dev/lp1] using IRQ -1."
When I attempt to data-print directly to my HP LaserJet 5L, via command
'cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0 [sic. cat /var/log/boot.msg >
/dev/lp1]", my HP LaserJet 5L does process, ...but again, all output
pages are blank pages. What am I doing wrong?
Sincerely,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:10:14 GMT
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:42:39 GMT, John Hasler wrote:
>> I know that upgrading Linux distros is generally not the better way to
>> go,...
>
>Who told you that?
Personal experience, along with testemonials in these newsgroups.
As I mentioned earlier, the last time I tried SuSE's upgrade procedure, my
Linux installation grew by several hundred megs, and system performance went
straight down the tube. When I re-installed from scratch, performance improved
and the system took up far less HDD space.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: LICQ file receive using InJoy FireWall for OS/2 Warp 4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:13:29 GMT
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:56:42 GMT, William L. Hartzell wrote:
>Steward:
Stewart, if you wouldn't mind.
>I'm an OS/2 wiseguy, and you're in the wrong newsgroup.
Oh? So you're saying that the configuration of a Linux application isn't valid
in a Linux newsgroup, and the configuration of an OS/2 application isn't valid
in an OS/2 newsgroup?
BTW - what, exactly, does "misc" stand for in the newsgroup titles?
Please, if you're going to respond, try to actually respond rather than
patronize and incite flame wars. If you believe I'm in the wrong group, why
not suggest another newsgroup for follow-up? Why not set the follow-up to
said different group?
Here I was thinking the comp.* groups were somehow different than the alt.*
groups. Thanks for proving me wrong, and for demonstrating that Usenet is,
indeed, becoming a worthless cesspool of hatred and oneupmanship.
Don't bother responding. You've already proven not to be worth my time.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:17:17 GMT
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:00:00 GMT, David Steuber wrote:
>' I know that upgrading Linux distros is generally not the better way to go,
>' but I've got 100s of hours into configuring this version to do exactly what
>' I want, so I'm not sure I want to scrap it.
>
>I've got the same problem. I have a laptop computer that uses the
>neomagic drivers for X that I would like to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.2.
I don't really have that problem, although I have seen that the S3VIRGE drivers
have been updated, and will (apparently) only work with a new(er) version of
X11. I'm also running into problems where a lot of software is now only being
updated for the Glibc2 systems, and I've got Glibc1.2 here.
Rather than try to upgrade everything one at a time, I'd like to just upgrade
the entire she-bang.
>And of course 6.4 is about to come out. What a dilema!
Yeah.. You're telling me! I just know that as soon as I install 6.3, 6.4 will
hit their site in ISO format. {groan}
Why must development go faster than me? :>
>' Does anybody have any experience in upgrading SuSE Linux v6.0 to SuSE Linux
>' v6.3? I've got both versions sitting here, and was wondering if the upgrade
>' procedure would be less painful than that from v5.2 to v6.0 (ISTR my Linux
>' partition gaining 500 megs of who-knows-what, and system performance going
>' straight down the tubes..).
>
>I plan on backing up my laptop to my other machine so that I can get
>back stuff. I'm going to try the upgrade system option in yast and
>hope for the best.
I think that's the way I'm going to go. I plan on leaving my /home partition
alone, so that should be a problem. Now just to figure out what I have on my
/ partition that I should back-up, and I just might give the 6.0-6.3 upgrade
a try.
If it doesn't work - I'll have my backup, and I guess I'll just re-install
v6.3 from scratch. {shrug}
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: connecting to internet via command line
From: Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:19:41 GMT
In article <89hpql$e9m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>can anyone please tell me how to connect to the internet from command line.
>i used to do it fine using kppp in kde on linx red hat 6.
>my x windows has crashed bad, my floppy drive does not work and i need some
>files urgently.
>
>many thanks
>max
cat >/etc/ppp/options
/dev/ttyS0
115200
connect 'chat -f /etc/ppp/myisp.chat'
crtscts
defaultroute
noauth
lock
modem
netmask 255.255.255.0
noipdefault
silent
novj # Buggy VJ Compression stacks abound!
^D
cat >/etc/ppp/myisp.chat
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' '' ATZ OK
ATDT5551212 CONNECT ''
ogin: user
ssword: pass
^D
pppd
-- DN
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:24:36 -0500
Adobe has recently posted a generic PS driver for MS boxes. I've been
using it for a little while; it seems to avoid a lot of the crappy PS
generation out there.
You could always make a policy that you only support PS generated with
this driver only.
--Yan
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rod Smith would say:
> >[Posted and mailed]
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a nice little Linux network with some printers hanging off a Linux
> >> server. Unfortunately the eejits in the department still insist on using
> >> Windows now and again, and thus are driving me up the wall.
> >>
> >> The problem is the postscript drivers from Windows tend to stick those
> >> annoying few lines at the top of the ps file, thus making some applications
> >> and more importantly, the printing system, recognise it as raw text and not
> >> as Postscript.
> >
> >I'm sure a script to remove such garbage wouldn't be difficult to write,
> >but I don't have any references for any ready-made solutions offhand.
>
> This would be a quite beautiful idea; there has been a tendancy to need
> to "cruft up" Postscript interpreters to cope with garbage, and it would
> be nicer to:
> a) Keep the cruft separate;
> b) Provide the ability to collect up some of the problem files,
> diff against decrufted versions, and thereby have *GOOD DOCUMENTATION*
> for the problems in applications/PS-generators that are causing
> problems.
>
> It would be pretty cool if a daemon sent Microsoft's bug tracking system
> a message every time someone generated a document that was nonconformant
> Postscript; that would probably have more effect towards getting the
> problems fixed than the article that was in Byte Magazine 8 or 10
> years ago...
> --
> Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: how to lock the keyboard
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Mar 2000 04:30:08 GMT
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:51:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Why not use the password lock in the screensaver?
>
>Is this screensaver text based? I'd like to run it from a text shell.
>If so, in what RPM could I find it in my CD set?
No, outside of X you can use vlock (I don't know about rpms, though) or you can
run everything through a program called screen and then press Ctrl-A X to lock.
You probably have screen installed already, it's in an rpm called screen.
vlock can probably be found at freshmeat.net.
Robie.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: More resolution probs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Mar 2000 04:33:46 GMT
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:23:08 GMT, Hermit said:
>
>Did you reboot?
Reboot? The only time you ever have to reboot Linux is when you
recompile the core part of the kernel.
You can switch to runlevel 3 and then back to 5 (or the equivalents in
another distribution) which is much quicker.
Rebooting seems to be a knee-jerk reaction from Windows people. In
fact, on computers I manage rebooting often makes the problem worse,
as it is normally a while before I get around to writing scripts to get
daemons I install to start automatically.
Robie.
>
>Hermit
>
>>Firstly, sincere thanks to everyone that posted/mailed in response to my
>>earlier cry for help entitled "New to Linux: Help!".
>>
>>One problem I'm having is that everything on the desktop is HUGE. The
>>consensus was that this was because in my XF86Config file, the
>>resolution was set to 640x480, whereas what I need is 800x600. I ran
>>XF86Configurator - no success here. So, I switched the modes around in
>>XF86Config by hand, with "800x600" first in line. Still no improvement.
>>What on earth is wrong?! (I can't use Ctrl-Alt-Minus/Plus because I
>>don't have a numeric keypad).
>>
>>The machine is a Toshiba Satellite 310CDT (which the Linux Laptop page
>>at utexas.edu doesn't mention) with 800x600 LCD panel, and (I think) a
>>pretty standard SVGA card (which was autodetected with no difficulty).
>>If anyone has succeeded with Linux (I'm using RH6.1) on this machine I'd
>>love to hear from you. (I'm also having trouble with the keyboard
>>settings, though this can wait)
>>
>>Cheers, Simon
>
--
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading SuSE v6.0 to v6.3?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:19:23 -0600
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> I know that upgrading Linux distros is generally not the better way to go,
> but I've got 100s of hours into configuring this version to do exactly what
> I want, so I'm not sure I want to scrap it.
>
All I have ever done is upgrade after the initial install,using RH and
it works fine, or upgrade the packages you want by hand. reinstalling
the OS for simple upgrades is windoze nonsense.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Jaime Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: permission denied
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:52:12 -0800
Hi David,
thank you very much for answering my email.
I got an answer to my question and I have been able to do it.
The answer was given to me by a guy named Jeff.
He told me how to do it and I did it and it worked beautifully.
-jaime
David Steuber wrote:
> Jaime Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ' How can I solve this problem?
>
> I'm not an expert, but Apache runs as nobody. Nobody can't do much of
> anything for security reasons. There should be a way to run Apache as
> somebody who is in the same group as the user you want to write files
> to.
>
> --
> David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
> NRA Member | a hoploholic.
>
> http://www.packetphone.org/
>
> Save the Whales -- Harpoon a Honda.
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Athlon kernel compile
Date: 26 Mar 2000 12:45:46 -0800
Hi,
I'm about to compile kernel 2.2.14 for my athlon box and was wondering
whether to enable MTRR (there have been a lot of posts about needing to
disable it in earlier kernel versions; what about this one?). Also, which
processor type should I choose?
Thanks,
Janet
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From: Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easy JDK Linux Question??
Date: 26 Mar 2000 22:58:41 +0200
>>>>> Matthias Beer writes:
Matthias> You wrote
>> When I type:
>> /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac hello.java
>> I get:
>> /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac: /bin/realpath: No such file or
>> directory /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac: /bin/realpath: No such file or
Matthias> I have the same problem (and a Win background - with
Matthias> Corel Linux the old Linuxers will have to get used to us
Matthias> ;-) ).
Matthias> I found that a utility called realpath fails ("it
Matthias> segfaults"). I did a search for "realpath" on deja and
Matthias> there are a few posts that propose solutions.
Matthias> Juergen Kreileder postet that the JDK from SUN needs a
Matthias> glibc-2.1 system or better. You can download different
Matthias> versions of the JDK for glibc-2.0 and glibc-2.1 from
Matthias> Blackdown (http://www.blackdown.org/). (I would have
Matthias> thought Corel Linux would come with the latest and
Matthias> shiniest parts :-( )
There is no glibc-2.0 version of the JDK-1.2.2.
Matthias> Another suggestion (Johan Vromans) was to simply change
Matthias> the java script (.java_wrapper I think) and fill in the
Matthias> filenames, eliminating the calls to realpath .
Matthias> I haven't tried any of these yet so I don't know if they work
Matthias> (especially No 2 - it would save another 20M download).
The recommened solution is to use glibc-2.1.3 with JDK-1.2.2-RC4 and
the Inprise JIT compiler. The reason for this is that our last
glibc-2.0 release was JDK-1.2-prev2 which is out-dated and had
several bugs. Also, glibc-2.1.2 and glibc-2.1.3 fixed several glibc
bugs that made the JDK instable.
Juergen
--
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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From: Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use an updated Java for Linux with Netscape Communicator v4.7?
Date: 26 Mar 2000 22:52:04 +0200
>>>>> Stewart Honsberger writes:
Stewart> As you can tell by the subject line, I've got an updated
Stewart> version of the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from
Stewart> http://java.blackdown.org (version 1.2.2, to be exact),
Stewart> and wonder if I could use it with Netscape Communicator
Stewart> v4.7?
Yes and no. Yes, you can use 1.2.2 with netscape if you install the
Java Plug-In. No, the plug-in won't get used for all applets, it only
works with pages that have been modified for the plug-in.
Stewart> As an aside;
Stewart> When I run the 'java' binary, I get the following error;
Stewart> /usr/local/jre1.2.2/bin/java: /bin/realpath: No such file or directory
Stewart> /usr/local/jre1.2.2/bin/java: /bin/realpath: No such file or directory
Stewart> java was not found in /bin/i386/native_threads/java
Stewart> I presume it has something to do with the following
Stewart> portion of the .java_wrapper file;
No, your glibc is too old. 1.2.2 needs glibc-2.1.2 or better.
Juergen
--
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Bad Fat
Date: 26 Mar 2000 21:21:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:34:51 -0500, constants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to install linux mandrake. When I was going to resize my fat
>partition for windows it said
>Bad Fat: cluster $cluster is cross-linked for /WINDOWS /AMBNAPEK
>Has anybody else run into this problem.
>Whenever I use a windows boot disk I get the message that I don't have a
>valid fat32 file structure. Could this have anything to do with it? Plus
>when I press the ctrl key when Ez-Bios is starting up it says that my
>hard-drive isn't 32-bit enabled. Could this have anything to do with it?
>Thanks in advance.
What is Ez-Bios, are you using some sort of 3rd party software to access
your large hard drive? If so, that is your problem. Linux may be able to
read such drives, but cannot install on them.
If there is some way to remove Ez-Bios, Linux can use drives that are
larger than the system BIOS recognizes. I don't know any details except
that you would likely need a primary /boot partition (16 meg) below cyl
1024 within the part that your BIOS can see.
If you have another drive, you might try installing LILO on that, but
don't ask me how risky it would be to put LILO in the MBR of the Ez-Bios
1st drive. But you could use a boot floppy or something like loadlin to
boot Linux on a different drive from DOS.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I uninstall Corel Linux ?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:30:03 GMT
Gidday, I Installed Corel Linux, as the only operating system,
installation worked fine, but: I can't establish a web connection, my
printer doesn't work and... the system dies on me quite frequently. I
decided that Corel Linux is not my solution, so I want to get rid of it,
Formatted the harddisk-drive... it still comes up with the first linux
screen, doesn't start, but doesn't go to dos either, redid the
partitioning of my harddiskdrive, made sure that 100 percent are dos, so
there is no linux left, formatted it again.. no relief, still comes up
with the first corel linux screen... what do I do ?
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: Custom Ringing
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:38:52 GMT
Most (all?) modern modems understand and handle "distinctive ringing" with the
different ring cadences.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Falah Thamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What can be used to have a Linux box answer a phone call based on a
>certain ring pattern (custom ringing, where each pattern has a different
>phone number). For example, one ring pattern to receive faxes, another
>ring pattern to Telnet.
>
--
Herb Stein
The Herb Stein Group
www.herbstein.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
314 215-3584
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Would starting Apache while online make me...
Date: 26 Mar 2000 21:45:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Mar 2000 19:47:53 GMT, Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...a server just like that? Would i be visible to the online world? What
>about limiting this 'exposure' or access to just me, from my work PC? Is
>there a way to do that?
It depends. Your machine may need a hostname that apache can find in DNS
or /etc/hosts, but there is a way around that. However, for anyone to
find your machine from the internet, they would either need to know the IP
that you are connected to the internet with, or the world resolvable
hostname of that IP (if there is one).
This is easy if you have a static internet IP and hostname. If you have a
dynamic IP, you could either talk to your ISP or look into 3rd party DNS.
Access restrictions can easily be done with server directives. For
example the following (using a bogus or local IP in this example) would
only allow access from a particular IP:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow for 192.168.1.20
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Opinionated <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:55:58 -0600
Hi,
I'm not that familiar with SuSE's setup, but I do know what your problem
is. You do need the filter to send your printer, Otherwise you will get
exactly what you are seeing when you do the cat file > /dev/lpx.
Your problem in a nutshell is that the filter needs to be told to send an
additional Carriage Return after every line to your printer so that the
printer will start each line at the beginning, not at the position the
last line left it on the previous line. Since that line position is
beyond the area your printer can print, the printer merely spaces up a
line without printing anything.
I'm not sure what you would need to specify to your SuSE printer
configuration tool, but in RedHat's printtool, you would check the 'fix
stairstepping text' box. I tried looking into my filter and printcap
files and didn't find any options there that told the filter to generate
this extra CR per line.
Good Luck.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
> Would very-much appreciate any "straight-up" advice, from any
> benevolent/generous Linux users, that might bring my subject-printer to
> life!
> Cannot get my HP LaserJet 5L b/w printer locally configured properly.
> "Goes through the motions", but output pages are completely blank; no
> printed chars. whatsoever.
> I am a Linux newbie, with SuSE Linux 6.3 installed on my pc (has an AMD
> K6-2 450MHz with 32MB PC100 SDRAM and a 4.3GB UDMA ATA/33 hard drive).
> I've attempted configurations via YaST, and apsfilter. I've setup as a
> device at /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 (... separately; not both active
> configs., at same time). Printer drivers attempted thusfar, as a
> 'Postcript'-type printer, include ljet4; as an 'Other'-type printer,
> include (? spelling not necessarily correct on my part. Sorry!):
> ljet5gray, ljet5mono, ljet4mono, ljet4gray, pxlmono, pxlgray,
> ljet4Lgray, ljet4Lmono, lj4dith.
> However, upon command 'tunelp /dev/lp0' (altern. 'tunelp /dev/lp1'), I
> get the following stdout: "/dev/lp0 [sic. /dev/lp1] using IRQ -1."
> When I attempt to data-print directly to my HP LaserJet 5L, via command
> 'cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0 [sic. cat /var/log/boot.msg >
> /dev/lp1]", my HP LaserJet 5L does process, ...but again, all output
> pages are blank pages. What am I doing wrong?
> Sincerely,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Opinionated <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to my ISP with a modem
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:05:41 -0600
Dave Borchard wrote:
> I am having trouble connecting to my ISP with a modem. I can CONNECT with
> either a US Robotics Voice Fax External Modem or a US Robotics V- Everything
> Courier External Modem. After the connection is established, my username and
> password is sent (following the ISP request for a username and password. The
> connection then shows:
>
> Entering PPP Mode
> IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <--- one of the ISP addresses is displayed
> MTU is 1524.
>
> The connection then times out after about 30 seconds.
>
> Is there something else that requres configuration besides the primary and
> secondary DNS and accepting an ISP assigned IP address?
>
> I am able to easily configure Win 95 or Win 98 to connect to the ISP, but
> under (Caldera 2.3) Linux, it appears that there is something missing.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what other configuration is necessary?
>
> Dave Borchard
Check what your default gateway and device is set to. If your ISP has given
you a gateway setting, then your default gateway parameter should be that
value, Otherwise it should be blank. More importantly is that your Default
Gateway device should be something like ppp0. I suspect otherwise that if this
value wasn't specified, that your default gateway device is probably set to
your ethernet card, so that even though you're connected to your ISP, your
system is still looking for data from your ethernet device, not your modem.
Good Luck.
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