OK right now I have 2 windows xp machines one is desktop one is lap top I also have an older windows 98 machine that it is used for certain programs when need like genealogy then I have the computer I want to make into a print server right now it is running windows 98 and I have them all hooked together with a wireless router all but the lap top is hard wired in through the LAN ports. for now I am using the windows 98 on the print server computers it is an old pent 1 computer this is why I don't like using windows 98 on that machine the print server it can't seem to fall asleep I have set the bios sleep settings and I have set the windows 98 sleep settings and it keeps waking up so not really saving energy when I have a monitor hooked to it I can see it come on and off all the time even when I am not sending any thing to it I have tried unhooking the mouse and keyboard thinking that might be waking it up but it still does that. My one problem is my ink jet is a deskjet 952 c and it can use parallel or usb since the laser takes the parallel I have to use usb since the ink jet printer is only used for color so not sued a whole lot I want to be able to have the inkjet shut off and when I need it just turn it on and print but on the print server using that printer you can't do it I have turned it off then when I go to print turn it on hit print on the computer sending it and it wont print but if I restart the print server computer it will print want to be able to have it go to sleep and only wake up when I either send something to it to print or when I save something on it's hard drive so yes they are networked but not working the way i want it to. also how hard is it to find a driver for linux for the oaserjet 6L and the hp deskjet 952c ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert C Wittig To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: hi
falesdave wrote: > yes it has a sleep mode and it does have a wake on LAN.option I have > both set right now and the computer never seems to go to sleep. On > the power light it has a sign that when it goes into sleep mode it > will flash but it never flashes I hooked a monitor up and it pops up > a thing saying going to sleep and about 2 minutes later it lights > back up into windows so for some reason it keeps waking up if I > switch to lynux would it sleep better. Well, without knowing exactly which version of which operating system you are using, I can't make any concrete suggestions, and if you are using an OS that I am not familiar with, I will not be able to make any recommendations, either, but someone else familiar with your OS might. > sorry for my spelling and punctuation errors I have brain injury from > being in a helicopter crash fighting wild and fires. so that is one > problem of a brain injury. Yeah, I am familiar with your problem... it is called aphasia. I also have a brain injury from a stroke I had in 1994, and reading writing, spelling and numbers are all affected, but over the years, I learned some workarounds, like using a good spell-checker and a grammar-checker, and a calculator for handling numbers. It still takes me about five times longer to write something, than it did before the stroke, but the spell-checker really helps out a lot... you might want to try it. > OK is there a sight I can go to say which version of linux I > should use I have a free CD for ubonto and I also have a C.D. that is > an old version of lynux that says linux operating system 6.5 I found > in a second hand store can I get a newer version or would that be > better for an older computer. and is there a place I can go to that > will talk about setting up a network using linux and having machines > connecting that run win XP and win 98. what all software will I need. I am running Windows 2000 on two of my computers (Graphics Workstation and print/fileserver, Linux on my Desktop machine, OpenBSD on my web/mail servers, and FreeBSD on a second desktop and practice machine. All of my machines can talk to each other one way or another. Right now, how do you connect to the Internet... with a phone connection, or with a DSL connection? Right now, do you have any of your machines networked with each other, with ethernet cables and network interface cards? > the printers i will be using is a laserjet 6l for black and white > hooking in using parallel port and a hp desk jet 952c inkjet which > can hook in either with parallel port or usb I only use it for > printing color. Right now the inkjet is unhooked because if i turn > it off then just turn it on some reason the printserver computer wont > tell it is on or something if i shut it down and turn it back on it > will use the inkjet but just leaving it running and Turing the inkjet > on or off doesn't work, > Take one thing at a time, starting with a clear description of the current state of your computers, and how they are presently connected to each other. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ . http://robertwittig.org/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
