"Rev. David P. Giffen" wrote:
> Bret Hughes wrote:
> >
> > "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.
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 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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> Updated RPM and then tried both methods again. neither one worked.
> However this time I did not lose vmlinuz.
well that is some progress I guess :-)
Have you upgraded lpr too? seems like there was some fixes for that but I can't
remember the versioin or the symptoms.
Bret
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