Re: [Sheflug] printing post cable modem

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Matt Fairtlough wrote:

> But printing is my main problem now.  I'm convinced it
> is related to the presence of the modem but goodness
> knows how.  I can't find lpd actually: where is it
> normally?

/usr/sbin

> all dmesg reports are dozens of messages
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,0)
> that don't relate to anything _I'm_ doing.
>
> so what is it that lpc is trying to connect to, and
> what is refusing the connection???

The lpd daemon should be running on your machine, and lpc connects to
localhost and prints via aforementioned daemon.

Try "/etc/init.d/lpd start".
Might not be the right path on SuSE though.


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