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  From: David <dave@australiamail.com>
  To  : Robert Thomas <4first@tpg.com.au>
  Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:56:50 +1030

Re: Printtool

The Rpm  modutils is broken in RedHat 6.1  they have this listed 
in their 6.1 gotcha's .. even so they have not ( the last time i tried )
replaced the rpm ..

here is a link to the latest modutils.rpm   which fixes the problem..


ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/modutils/v2.3/modutils-2.3.9-1.i386.rpm

enjoy 

Regards David

At 06:07 pm 29/01/00 , you wrote:
>I also have had the same problem with Redhat 6.1 not recognising my
>printer - on two different machines. Likewise it was recognised in Redhat
>6.0. I have now tried all modes available for the printer port under the
>BIOS but still no success. Just to make sure I also made sure that I have
>the latest release from Redhat for lpd. Using an HP Deskjet 400. One of the
>machines is a dual boot with win98 and there are no problems printing from
>there. Any suggestions of where to start?
>
>Robert Thomas
>4First Accounting Services
>Ph: (08) 8357 1729
>Fax: (08) 8357 1983
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Drury" <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
>To: "Tim" <saf@penguinpowered.com>
>Cc: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
>Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:21 PM
>Subject: Re: Printtool
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > I have a Redhat 6.1 machine with a HPDeskjet 660c printer in (dos
>> > port) lpt1.  However, printtool cannot detect any printers attached to
>the
>> > /dev/lp* devices.  But during an install of RH 6.0 on the same machine,
>> > the printer setup did detect one on /dev/lp0.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any alternative ways of setting up the printer, or, is
>> > the printer setup from the old RH 6.0 install anywhere on my system?
>>
>> Check your BIOS settings and your printer manual. Some printers require
>> the parallel port to be set to diferent modes (ECP, EPP, normal etc). I've
>> found on occasions with an HP printer and windows NT, applying a service
>> pack was enough to break it till I reset the port mode.
>>
>> Possibly something similar is happening here.
>>
>> If this fails, do you have an old DOS disk lying around. Try booting to it
>> and type the command.
>>
>> copy <some text file> lpt1:
>>
>> Need a text file, try config.sys, or create one.
>>
>> This'll confirm printing is working from your PC, and its possibly some
>> other problem.
>>
>> cya
>>
>> --
>> David Drury
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