[juneau-lug] Re: really headless?

Speaking of printing. I've read the how-to's and am still a little 
confused. The how-to seemed to address lpt1 printing, I've got a 
jetdirect card in my hp and use tcp/ip. 

Anyone have any insite or know of a how-to that addresses tcp/ip 
printing?

Thanks.

-sean



----- Original Message -----
From: "James Zuelow" <jamesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:59 am
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: really headless?

> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Crites
> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:20 AM
> > To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: really headless?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ya, that was the one other thing that I found out about the 
> serial 
> > console. I've been recompiling my kernel every other day or 
> > so now as I 
> > figure out I need new features. When compiling for SMP make sure 
> you 
> > turn on your hardware clock lock on. It took me two compiles 
> > to figure 
> > that out. 
> 
> Happens to the best of them.  Over the weekend I updated my RedHat 7.2
> box with up2date.  I have up2date configured to download, but not
> install new kernel images.  I noticed that RedHat had a newer kernel
> than my custom compiled one, so I tried it.
> 
> It broke my printing.  In the 2.4 kernels, you have to specify support
> for a parallel port in the general config area (of menuconfig) AND
> specify support for a printer as a character device in the character
> device area.  Looks like RedHat left out one of the two, as when I was
> using their kernel I didn't have an lp0 device to print to.
> 
> Then again, these days printers are either USB or ethernet, so 
> maybe I'm
> the dinosaur that RedHat just can't waste time supporting with a
> parallel port printer....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> 
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