All: TOPIC 1: Getting HP LJ-4P printer to work: =========================================== I have two machines, one set up with Ubuntu 10.04 and the other with OpenSuse 11.2. I could not get either one of them to print to a HP-LJ-4P printer on either the USB ---> Parallel or using the Jet-Direct card. The Jet-Direct card isn't the issue you think it is. I was able to permanently set it up in the router for it to pick up the MY-NET.101 IP address and also to put the MAC address into the /etc/ethers file. I can ping it and more to the point could telnet into it. The problem was picking the right filter and protocol on OpenSuse. Why do we have one dozen plus filters for a printer? I am pretty sure the ancient JetDirect precedes IPP but it would be nice to just find which filter works first.
So I ordered two MosChip MCS-9865 parallel cards from NewEgg. I can print just fine with either the USB ---> Parallel or using the parallel cards on Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro. The cards work. Now I can't get their code I downloaded to build. Here are the results of doing the make (I tried first on Ubuntu but with it having GRUB 2.x and me getting lots of compile errors I just gave up) on OpenSuse: http://www.SecureMecca.com/MosChip/ The files were created on OpenSuse with: # make > Log.txt 2> Err.txt # make > Both.txt 2>&1 Noticing that there was no build folder I manually created it, Then I typed: # make > HasBuildLog.txt 2> HasBuildErr.txt following their instructions to the TEE. I am pretty sure you are not supposed to create the build folder manually but with all the errors I got on Ubuntu I thought I should start with OpenSuse first. I have included the download in the folder with the extracted PDF file. TOPIC 2: flash versus gnash & swfdec on Ubuntu: =============================================== As an independent security analyst I first think Ubuntu's fear of not having su and trying to do everything the sudo way is dumb. I sudo a root xterm and let it hang around. If they are so concerned about security they need to really think twice about where ${HOME}/bin is supposed to be (search for "SUDO WON'T DO" if it doesn't come up) in the ${PATH}: http://SecureMecca.BlogSpot.com/ I am even reminded I should not have the root xterm when I fire up wireshark, but how am I going to capture without having root privs? If you ask me they are afraid of their machines. But on to this issue, on OpenSuse I had no choice - I got gnash & swfdec whether I wanted them or not. There are problems with that approach. Lots of web-sites won't function because they use Adobe's flawed version checker code. What is the current philosophy of what should be done with Ubuntu? Software Center comes up with choices of only gnash and swfdec. If there is an experienced Ubuntu user let me know. I am coming from a background of using primarily RedHat, RHEL, and Fedora but when 10, 11, and 12 could not detect my monitor I had no choice. I had to switch to something else. The funny thing is that Fedora 3 did detect my monitor. After seeing them argue with over 1000 messages about being prompted or not for an admin password to install software I gave up. I don't know where they are going but I don't want to go there. When Fedora 3 could detect my old monitor (now dead) and versions 10, 11, and 12 couldn't they are going in the wrong direction. Sorry for being so long-winded Henry Hertz Hobbit (legal name David Alexander Harvey) PS I kept getting redirected to web pages by WireShark when I started it as me, but could not find a way of elevating the privileges to do a capture with the new version. Just starting it with "wireshark &" in the root xterm got rid of the problem. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
