From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 14:55:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F3A37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA38892; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:55:28 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <39B697A9.9D7A2FAA@home.com> References: <39B697A9.9D7A2FAA@home.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:56:51 -0400 To: Bob Howard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: lpd problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:14 PM -0700 9/6/00, Bob Howard wrote: >I have a problem printing to a local printer. I am using >linux-mandrake 7.02 with kernel 2.2.14-15mdk. I have been >following the printer setup described in the PPA-HP Printer >HOW-TO. The results of the tests given there indicate that >I have a bad lpd. I can setup printer in printcap and print >to /dev/lp0 using a script file or command line but if I try >to lpr to that printer I fail to get any print. Can I replace >the lpd other than by rebuilding the kernel? Is there another >way of testing lpd? Any other suggestions? I would be glad >to provide more detail but want to direct it to the best place. >Thank you. You have sent this question to a mailing list for the FreeBSD operating system, not linux or linux-mandrake. While some linux's do ship with a BSD-based version of lpr & friends, you probably would get better results asking on a linux-specific mailing list. I doubt you have to rebuild the kernel to use some other version of lpd. You might want to try to find the 'rpm' for a package called lprNG (or LPRng, I forget... :-). I do not use this, but I know many people do. I could help with generic lpd questions, but my guess is that your real problem could be linux-specific, so you might want to search elsewhere for additional help. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message