[newbie] Kups says no ports!
I installed Kups and its required cups today in an effort to get my HP LJ3 working as a local printer. LPR just doesn't seem to be available anywhere in ML 8. Alas, it was not to be! Kups shows up on the KDE menu now, but when I run it it says there are no ports (the LJ is connected to the parallel port and works just fine under dos). I'm very close to giving up on Mandrake 8. This is all supposed to be really simple stuff. I had no problems with in earlier Linux distributions - Mandrake, SuSE, RH, et al. Then there's other things like the crappy fonts in KDE and getting my 56K modem to work on the net when set to run faster than 38400.
[newbie] Printing with 8 - repost
I've not received any suggestions for this problem so am trying one last time. I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lpt0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up local printing from KDE 2 and I get a choice of Postscript, a Deskjet series, or text-only. I choose text-only but can't print a test page. It doesn't even try - no blank page, no garbage, nothing. I can't print from Kmail either. In another thread someone suggested using Kups (Configuration - Printers - Kups. There is no 'Kups' or 'cups' choice on my system. I had told the original MD 8 install to load everything for a workstation. The KDE software manager shows both on the CD but not installed. Any suggestions appreciated. In previous versions I selected my printer from a long list, told the computer which port, a printcap entry was made for me and I was printing in no time. I was disappointed in this new no-printer-choice set-up in MD 8. I would prefer this system as it has always worked well for a local printer in many previous Linux distributions including Mandrake 7.0. TIA Ken
Re: [newbie] Can't get on-line
At 08:42 PM 06/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2001 07:38 pm, you wrote: I'm using MD 8, KDE 2, and kppp. The modem is an external US Robotics 56k. Kppp says it has logged on successfully. However, I can't go anywhere after logging on with a browser. I tried Netscape and Konqueror and Mozilla. None seem to be able to go anywhere on the net. I tried addresses I know are good like Google and addresses from their bookmark list. I use the same primary and secondary DNS IPs that I use in W98's DUN where they work fine. I wrote about this earlier and was told to try: 1) Adding CR at the end of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets 2) Commenting out 'Gateway' line in /etc/sysconfig/network I used a '#' for the comment symbol and followed these instructions. I haven't tried e-mail or news aps yet. Any suggestions? Another modem program? TIA Ken Ken, I had(have) a similar problem although I'm using 7.2 and a Supra external 56K modem. Mine occurred after my ISP changed DNS settings on a new server. I tried numerous configurations in /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Nothing seems to work. I must have changed every setting in linuxconf - one by one. Finally I tried resetting the speed at the KPPP settings screen. I had always used 115200. Logged in but only a few packets transferred. Same at 57600. At 38400 it connected and although slower than I had previously experienced it worked. The connection is still occasionally intermittent. It is rock solid at 19200 but slow. I don't really know why it worked (I truly am new to Linux) but I suspect that line quality comes into play. Some wizard of initialization strings might have a better method but for now it worked for me. It's a quick change to try and you're no worse off if it doesn't. Good luck. Jim Jim That got it! Thanks much. I got to google and made a search. Ugh - horrible font in Netscape! I'll have to try to fix that. I'll have to figure out how to get the speed back up but I can certainly live with 38400. I was only on a couple of minutes but it stayed connected. Now to set up mail and a newsreader. Anyone have any favorites? If I can get my system to print and I can finally got off the W98 box - forever! I hope. Ken
[newbie] KDE mail newsreader doc?
Can someone direct me to a site with printable doc, preferably ASCII, for Kmail and the KDE 2 newsreader (Knode?). I like to read the directions before I set up and use software and I prefer not to do my reading from a computer. I looked at the howto and mini-howto list but couldn't find anything. I have found Kmail doc at the KDE site, but in HTML, which doesn't lend itself to easy printing. (Or is there a secret to printing out a whole HTML doc without pulling up each section from the TOC?) TIA Ken
[newbie] Can't get on-line
I'm using MD 8, KDE 2, and kppp. The modem is an external US Robotics 56k. Kppp says it has logged on successfully. However, I can't go anywhere after logging on with a browser. I tried Netscape and Konqueror and Mozilla. None seem to be able to go anywhere on the net. I tried addresses I know are good like Google and addresses from their bookmark list. I use the same primary and secondary DNS IPs that I use in W98's DUN where they work fine. I wrote about this earlier and was told to try: 1) Adding CR at the end of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets 2) Commenting out 'Gateway' line in /etc/sysconfig/network I used a '#' for the comment symbol and followed these instructions. I haven't tried e-mail or news aps yet. Any suggestions? Another modem program? TIA Ken
[newbie] Printing with 8
I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lp0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up printing from KDE 2 and I get a choice of Postscript, a Deskjet series, or text-only. I choose text-only but can't print a test page. It doesn't even try - no blank page, no garbage, nothing. I can't print from Kmail either. In another thread someone suggested using Kups (Configuration - Printers - Kups. There is no 'Kups' choice on my system. I had told the original MD 8 install to load everything for a workstation. Any suggestions appreciated. In previous versions I selected my printer from a long list, told the computer which port, a printcap entry was made for me and I was printing in no time. I was disappointed in this new no-printer-choice set-up in MD 8. TIA Ken
