<sigh> of course - five minutes after having sent this (throwing my hands up in disgust) I removed it, reinstalled it and now it works :P
oh well... murphy's law is still firmly in operation ;) Still, I'm not complaining too loudly! :) Cheers, Taryn * Taryn East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > ok, I've had enough - I really want my printer working and I just can't > seem ot get it to. :( > > I run ubuntu (hoary) and it seems to detect it's there just fine, but it > keeps telling me "parallel port busy will try again" - of course it's a > USB printer and I keep changing it to either "use detected printer" or > even "USB port #1" (after checking that it actually is a) plugged into > said port and b) turned on). > > it still won't actually print me up a test page.... > > this is really annoying as it was working fine when I had it on Warty. > :( > > > is anyone able to help me figure out what's going wrong here? :( > > Thanks in advance, > Taryn > > > -- > This .sig temporarily out-of-order. > We apologise for any inconvenience > - The Management > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- This .sig temporarily out-of-order. We apologise for any inconvenience - The Management -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html