Re: Books and Printers and PPP

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] currantbun.com>]

> Not sure. To be honest, if you're after something that will work for you
> at all levels, it has to be Running Linux...
>
Anything cheaper???

> > Also, anyone know how to make an Epson stylus 640 do higher than 360x360
> > in 'hatch-o-vision'. Something more akin to Windoze style output would
> > be nice. Managed it once with the 600 driver, but then it died and
> > needed replacing.
>
> What died? The printer? or Driver?

The printer (well, 2 of them actually! Both swapped under warranty! he
he he)

>
> > Finally, I recently re-compiled my kernel (2.2.13) to include modules
> > for the soundcard. Now, PPP connections seem a little flakey, and liable
> > to drop off suddenly. Also, I get a message in the console log:
> >
> > insmod: cannot locate module char-major-108
> >
> > Anyone know what this is? char-major-107 is the 3dfx, and char-major-109
> > is the LVM, but no mention of what char-major-108 is, so I don't know
> > what it wants!!! I'm using kPPP by the way. sorry :-(
>
> Heh, you've almost solved the problem yourself. char-major-108 is ppp
> related. What have you got in your conf.modules? (or modules.conf,
> depending on your version of modutils ;) You should see something like
> 'alias char-major-108 ppp-generic'...
>

Got that far! As I said, no mention of it under /etc/modules.conf.
However, I will try alias char-major-108 ppp-generic to see what occurs,

ta anyway

Craig

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