On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter wrote about, Re: Can't Print:
> 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 I would imagen the book is well out of date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.
Its not a kernel issue, it sounds more like a permissions problem, are you
doing this as a user or root.???
Verify all the commands as root, if it works with you as root, then its
definalty a permissions problem.
> Regards and thanks a lot!
>
> Peter
>
>
> > --
> > Regards Richard
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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Regards Richard
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