On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Can't Print:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed RH 6.1 and it does not want to print.....
>
> I dont know how long you have been on this list
Less than one week
>
> I would imagen the book is well out of date
1996
> I take it you are using the default kernel installed by Redhat-6.1.
Yes
> If the following is not in /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules
> then edit them in.
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias char-major-6 lp
>
> Now providing the printer is online and kerneld or kmod is running then the
> following should work;
>
> cat filename > /dev/lp0
>
> If not do;
> modprobe lp
> Now cat a file again to try.
It does not work. If I test print with print tool the message is
"connection refused, cannot open daemon"
> If you have no luck check out the archives;
>
> For more information check out the archives at;
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
I will try this site. How about replacing the the RH 6.1 kernel with kernel 2.2.5 of
SuSE/Kde
onto RH 6.1. SuSe/Kde does print however kppp cannot connect to my favored
ISP.
Regards and thanks a lot!
Peter
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
