Printer, Sound card

2000-02-07 Thread Eric Hagglund
I have had Debian for about two years and never have been able to get my printer configured. Everytime I try to print I get operation not supported by device from the command line and a reference to character modules not found in xconsole. So I thought , let me try another Distro that's based on

Re: Printer, Sound card

2000-02-07 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi there, it doesn't matter what distribution you use to get things things working because you have to do the same things for each distribution that you try. to get things like sound and printing you have to compile them into the kernel. I forget the exact configuration to get things working. but

Re: Printer, Sound card

2000-02-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hay Eric, without details on what you tried and what you have it's a bit difficult to guess what anwser you need:) But I like guessing so... You need a driver to be able to print. In stock debian systems such a driver is compiled as a module named lp. You have to tell the system to use this