On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:54 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Lawrence R. Stumpf wrote: > > Hello, I have Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.667, HPG55 printer, > > hpG55.ppd, hpijs-1.6, and CUPS-1.1.22. > > That's pretty old. It's also out of anything but security updates. Have > you configured the Fedora Legacy repo? Or is the computer not connected > to the Internet? > > You might also want to try the Fedora Legacy list: FC3 is technically > off-topic here these days. You're more likely to get other people with > FC3 there, anyway. > > > Question #1-My BIOS asks if my > > operating system is a plug-and-play one. Yes or no? > > These days, it should make *very* little difference. ACPI should allow > the OS and the BIOS to sort out hardware settings anyway. > > You might as well set it to "yes". > > > Question #2-My BIOS > > says If your operating system is OS/2 and main memory size over 64 MB > > select OS2, otherwise select Non-OS2. > Non-OS/2. > > It sounds like you're playing around with all the options in your BIOS > without really understanding them. Most of these settings are "leave > alone unless you have a problem": motherboards are designed so PC firms > can bung together a PC quickly, bulk-install Windows onto the hard > drive, *hopefully* run burn-in tests, and deliver to the customers. > There isn't time for them to tweak umpteen settings. > > And Linux is generally happy with that: either manufacturers ignore > Linux (so there isn't a "make Linux work" option), or they make Linux > Just Work. In any case, Linux is much better at working with the way PCs > *actually* work than OS/2 or SCO Unix [1] were. > > > #3-In my BIOS I have selected the ECP mode for the Onboard Parallel > > Port. The ECP mode asks which Direct Memory Access channel, 3 or 1. > > Which should I select? > > These days, they aren't directly used by anything else, and the system > can work around whichever you choose. > > > Question #4-My HPG55 printer works fine in > > parallel hookup but does not print in usb hookup. lpinfo -v recognizes > > the printer as direct usb. lsusb shows Bus 002 Device 002:ID 03f0:0011 > > Hewlett-Packard. However /dev/usb/ file shows lp0 with 0 bytes and -rw- > > rw--- instead of crw-rw=== 1 lp sys 180. I think Fedora Core 3 is > > creating a regular lp0 file instead of a device node. What should I do > > now? > > Fedora Core 3 included udev for the first time. It took a bit of shaking > out. Do you have all the updates installed? What do > rpm -q udev hal > rpm -V udev hal > return? > rpm -q udev hal shows udev-039.8.FC3, rpm -V udev hal shows nothing. Thanks, Larry > James. > > [1] The other traditional culprit that needed special-handling. > -- > E-mail address: james | "I would like to apologise to the relatives of the fan > @westexe.demon.co.uk | who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. > | I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of > | signing and did not mean to kill and eat him." > | -- Terry Pratchett. >
