[vox-tech] Printing under KDE

[Dick Ely]

Thanks Henry:  I will try it tonight. see below:

No they are not new or exotic.  One is a SOYO board and the other is a 
PCI card.  I will go through the documentation tonight.     Jonathan has 
volunteered to give me a hand, for which I am grateful.  

Thanks, I will be in touch.  

Dick

Henry House wrote:

>På fredag, 04 juni 2004, skrev Richard Ely:
>
>>No, localhost:631 is not there.   I know it has been there and working 
>>because we used cups to print a document the other night.  How do I install 
>>it?  Probably trashed something trying to get the network to run.
>>
>
>It may be on a different port. Try running 'netstat -lpt' as root and you
>will get a listing of all TCP ports that are accepting connections and which
>program is listening on each.
>
>>What is the relationship between CUPS and printcap file which I do not seem 
>>to have.  Don't I need that?
>>
>
>CUPS does not use /etc/printcap at all. (That file is part of lpr, lprng,
>and other traditional printing systems, which CUPS is not.) However, some
>applications expect /etc/printcap to be there and use information from it.
>
>>BTW: Response,  Not my idea, the installfest guys were trying to solve a 
>>network problem which remains.   Are you any good at debugging why two nic 
>>cards do not seem to work together on a machine?
>>
>
>Are they the same chipset or different chipsets? Are they common cards or
>very new/exotic? In that case getting a driver directly from the
>manufacturer or from the driver developers may be necessary. What does dmesg
>say?
>
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>lert@lugod.org.
>