On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:52:33AM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 08:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I'm having trouble getting my Epson Stylus Color 980 printer working on > > a newly installed FC4 system. > > Using the Printer Configuration wizard I associated this printer with > > the default locally connected queue /dev/usb/lp0. I also selected the > > default driver: Epson Color 980. When I try sending any of the test > > pages to the printer I get the error message: There was a problem > > sending the test page to 'Epson980' queue. lpr error -- unable to print > > file: server error service unavailable. > > What does this mean and what can I do about it? The printer worked > > fine when I was running FC3. > > Thanks for the help! > > > > Jerry > > > Hello again, > > I fixed this problem by making the /etc/hosts file on PuteC (running > FC4) look like the old one on PuteA (still running FC3). But I was just > hacking in the dark and don't know why this worked. > When I installed FC4 on PuteC the /etc/host file looked like this: > > 192.168.1.12 PuteC.SMAssociates.com PuteC localhost.localdomain > localhost > 192.168.1.11 PuteA.SMAssociates.com PuteA > > To get something looking like the FC3 version on PuteA I took out the > localhost.localdomain and localhost aliases. Now the printer works > fine. But why? Why would you expect localhost.localdomain be associated with any ip address but 127.0.0.1 ? ======================================================================= Q: Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an interpolation function, the more expensive it becomes to compute? A: That's the Law of Spline Demand. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
