debs, mistakenly, i put the kabosh on "local" printing due to my inept networking attempt. here's what i get from an "lpr":
Script started on Tue Aug 22 11:06:42 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a¦lpr Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Network is unreachable Make sure LPD server is running on the server job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit Script done on Tue Aug 22 11:06:55 2000 clueless, i don't know how i did it, nor do i know what it means, but i seem to be trying to print at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in in any event, i want to get my printing back and deal with networking after i get some "local" print jobs out. if it matters, here's my "boot" re eth0: ~$ dmesg [snip] Script started on Tue Aug 22 11:05:35 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg 3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0x1400, 00:01:03:1a:41:3f, IRQ 11 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Sending DHCP and RARP requests ... timed out! IP-Config: Reopening network devices... Sending DHCP and RARP requests ...<7>eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. timed out! IP-Config: Reopening network devices... Sending DHCP and RARP requests ...<7>eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. timed out! [snip] PPP BSD Compression module registered rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it! RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ quit bash: quit: command not found do i need to re-roll the kernel to exclude the networking parameters? what networking file(s) could i have mucked up? other than, "try harder next time"--muhahaha--...suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. (potato on 2.2.16) //
