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Lexmark z22 printing
by Bill Smith July 15, 2002

July 15, 2002

Printing fun... Some of you might already know what I have to say, but I wanted to get this out for those that are in my boat... I am running a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop with Red Hat 7.3 installed. I mentioned a few months back (almost a year ago, now) that I had gotten my Lexmark z22 to print with Red Hat 7.1. One thing that I hate about upgrading RH versions is that it invariably forces me to re-learn things, since Red Hat can't seem to leave current configurations alone. 8\ ANYWAY, for a bunch of Stupid Reasons, I decided that I wanted to make use of the USB port on my z22 instead of the parallel port. Imagine, if you will, the fun I had in trying to get a printer that is barely supported by Linux to be recognized on the USB interface... I went to Lexmark's website and got the Linux drivers. Wouldn't you know it, though, but the drivers make no effort whatsoever to support the USB interface on the printer! After a bit of poking around, I realized that there was a KDE Control Panel! I use Window Maker by default and I was annoyed that control-panel was removed. I went through there and LO! the Lexmark z22 is there, right on the USB interface! 8) Granted, there are a couple snags. It looks like I can print multiple text-only documents with no problem, but if I print a Postscript file, then I have to turn the printer off then turn it on again. Compared to having no printer at all (or worse-yet, having to print from WinDOZE!), I see this as only a minor inconvenience. I'm thinking that this rig is using the foomatic configuration scripts, which may be unacceptable to some. I base this thought on the fact that the driver in use is actually for the Lexmark 3200 series, which (according to the .xml file) may print "a bit too rich"... <shrug> It looks okay for the black text that I'm printing with right now. I just wanted to share what I came across. Any corrections/suggestions are appreciated. (Yes, I went to http://www.linuxprinting.org ...) Best regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars." -- Jeff Green, on the difference between men and women * TAG! v3.0 *

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Konqueror enhanced browsing
by Andy Stewart July 13, 2002

July 13, 2002

Hi all, I've noticed in Konqueror that one can type things like: info: ...in the URL field and Konqueror will display info pages. There are others, such as: smb: lan: ftp: man: http: camera: The aforementioned are not listed in the Konqueror enhanced browsing configuration window, and I would guess that they are Konqueror defaults. Is there a definitive list of these? I'm wondering what features I might be missing that I'd like to use! Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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by Gregory Avedissian July 9, 2002

July 9, 2002

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Wireless LANs
by Andy Stewart July 9, 2002

July 9, 2002

HI everybody, Now that I have a laptop, I'm interested in a Wireless LAN for it. I'm wondering if this is a topic of general interest that somebody might like to present at our next meeting. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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tmpfs
by Bill Mills-Curran July 2, 2002

July 2, 2002

When researching the Reiserfs a while back, I discovered the tmpfs file system and the --bind option to mount. Both of these are nice tools to have around. --bind has made it into the mount man page, but the tmpfs is not documented in the man pages anywhere I can think to look. Does anyone know of a reason that it should not be used? I'm thinking of using it for some locking files and pid stamps -- all stuff that should not persist across a reboot. TIA, Bill

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CUPS + Samba + Win2000
by Michael Frysinger July 2, 2002

July 2, 2002

problem: print jobs sent to cups via samba from windows sit in print queue and never get processed printer: HP OfficeJet 600 set up cups + hpijs drivers. going through localhost:631 i set up the printer. had cups print out a test page ... looked good. set up samba ... samba file sharing/access/etc... works. added printer support to samba (see bottom for smb.conf). was able to add printer on windows2000 machine. viewed the properties of the printer, all of that stuff. went to print test page, no error came back. goto localhost:631 and i see: ID Name User Size State Control HP_OfficeJet_Series_600-2 smbprn.000004.mITl7Y root 313k processing since Sun Jun 30 02:53:03 2002 Hold Job Cancel Job basically it sits there forever (by forever i mean 24+hrs) and never gets printed. any ideas ? k thx -mike cups' printer.conf <DefaultPrinter HP_OfficeJet_Series_600> Info HP OfficeJet 600 Location Home DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> smb.conf [global] preferred master = True domain master = False wins support = yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes guest account = root netbios name = Home workgroup = WH0RD.ORG server string = home.wh0rd.org Samba %v # load printers = yes printcap name = lpstat printing = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers guest ok = yes browseable = yes read only = yes write list = root

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Help with Audio on Linux
by Prakash Purushotham July 1, 2002

July 1, 2002

Gurus I have a P-IV with AC97 on i810 (AvanceLogic ALC200/200P). I am unable to get FullDuplex audio working. I have installed the RC2 release of ALSA drivers but still, mic and speakers don't work together. I am pretty sure I am missing something in the configs. I have not been able to get any leads from Google. (Rh7.2, kernel 2.4.9-31, alsa-drivers 0.9rc2) TIA Best regards Prakash Purushotham

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Poster policy changed
by Frank Sweetser July 1, 2002

July 1, 2002

Since it seemed pretty much unanimous (at least among those who spoke up) the WLUG list should now only accepts submissions from subscribed members. If anyone has any problems, feel free to contact me. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy |

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hardware problem?
by avedis＠ma.ultranet.com June 30, 2002

June 30, 2002

I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine. Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome. Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM. I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight). Thanks. Greg

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spam attack
by avedis＠ma.ultranet.com June 30, 2002

June 30, 2002

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