"Rev. David P. Giffen" wrote:
> I tried what it said in Red Hat Linux 6.1 Gotchas and Workarounds.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 6.19 Problems with Printer not being detected
>
> Problem:
>
> For several kinds of systems, local printers are not found when
> printtool is searching for > local printers. You should be presented
> with an error saying no local printer was found.
>
> Fix:
>
> Get the the latest modutils RPM from
> ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/.
>
> For detailed instructions on how to install a package, please see our
> FAQ.
>
> Alternatively, you can add
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
> to your
>
> /etc/conf.modules file.
>
> Then run /sbin/rmmod lp, and start printtool.
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>
> The latest modutil RPM is modutil-2.3.14-2.i386.rpm. I thought "cool,
> download the package and load it, problem solved." However when I try to
> load the package using the rpm -Uvh modutil-2.3.14-2.i386.rpm command. I
> get the following error. Only packages with major numbers <=3 are
> supported by this version of RPM error: modutil-2.3.14-2.i386.rpm cannot
> be installed. Bum!
Go get the rpm version 3.0.5 rpm and upgrade rpm. There have been a lot of
probs with this
> So I try the alternative. Hacked the conf.modules.
> and ran the command. This cased so many problems that I had to
> completely reload Linux to fix it.
wow! I can't imagine what you could do to conf modules to necessitate a
reinstall. A good practiice is to copy a file to a backup before editing
it so that you can always go back. I usually start with cp filetobeedited
filetobeedited.orig
Did you do this and still had to reinstall? I am curious because if so I
will be more carefull what I do to conf.modules in the future.
Bret
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