Re: Installing Debian
Hi,
I assume you use a parallel printer. You have to insmod the modules
-parport.o
-parport_pc.o
-lp.o
If all goes well, you should be able to do something like 'cat textfile >
/dev/lp0' as root (which works fine for matrix printers, but may give no
output on others).
You also need to install a printer spooler then. Try:
apt-get install lprng magicfilter svgalib-dummyg1 gs gsfonts
About your PPP connection, I use wvdial (apt-get install wvdial). I have
an external modem at /dev/ttySx, don't know anything about internal
modems.
All described above should work with the standard kernel, so if it does
not, I do not know.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Lute Mullenix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them
> on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux
> and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the
> system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doing wrong when
> I install the system as I can install SuSE 6.4 and get everything to work, so
> it works under Linux. I'm using SuSE now.
>
> I really like what I have been reading about Debian, and it is the distro that
> I want to run on my system, just need a bit of help getting everything working
> at this point. One of the big problems I have is I don't have a clue as to
> what drivers I need to install when loading Debian. And I use a dial up PPP
> access for the Internet.
>
> I really want to use Debian so any help anyone would be willing to give me to
> get it up and running on here would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lute
>
>
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