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    Ok I'm new to linux and I have a coupple of questions if anyone can answer...

    first I'm running Red Hat 8.0 personal, and I have a HP 2100 printer connected to a Win 2000 computer that I need to use. Now I understand the theory behing how to it up by logging in as root and doing the whole add printer thingy, but are there any hints that anyone could provide as to how I can/should be doing this?

    Ok the second issue is that I have on the same system a cd rewriter 4x (yes I know old school but what ya gonna do ya know??) now on my computer I have the cd rewriter setup on the parallel port and there is supposed to be in the linux kernel the drivers for my cd burner built in, but I'm not sure how to enable them. I've read some documentation that tells me it's there, but doesn't say how to enable it, can anyone give any insite there???

    Thanx a ton,

    ~Sethos
    "...and in the next instant he was one of the deadest men that ever lived." – Mark Twain

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    hi, i dont use redhat so i can't help you out much,

    you first need to load the drivers,
    known as modules, like this:

    modprobe parport_pc
    modprobe lp

    i believe thats all, i cant remember cos i have the drivers
    built-in to my kernel... you can test by typing this:

    echo test >/dev/lp0

    if that prints, you can now set up your printer, my
    guess is redhat has cups by default.... go to



    and you can set up your printer from there, i'm not sure
    which cups driver is best for your printer though...

    once that done, file->print should work...

    2) you need to load the parallel port ide driver with:

    modprobe paride

    and then load parallel port atapi CD-Rom support with:

    modprobe pcd

    im not sure if iso9660 is built-into your kernel, but u may
    need to load the module with:

    modprobe isofs


    note: all these modprobe lines can automatically be loaded
    by putting them in /etc/modules.conf .. im not sure the exact
    lines that should be used, cos i dont use /etc/modules.conf
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    VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
    Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
    128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
    Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
    Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
    Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
    Realtek 8029A NIC Card
    Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
    Actima 36X CD-Rom
    Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
    Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
    Windows 2000 (primary)
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    • #3
      hey thanx a lot for that I'll try that out. out of curiosity is that also the same for setting it up on a network as well?

      ~Sethos
      "...and in the next instant he was one of the deadest men that ever lived." – Mark Twain

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      • #4
        i dont know i've never tried (or never had to try)

        your best bets are to read the docs, try the printing HOWTO:

        <font size="1">Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X MoBo
        VIA Apollo Pro 133a (694x/686A) chipset (4x agp, UDMA 66)
        Celeron II 733 CPU (coppermine 128)
        128meg (2x64) 133mhz SDRam
        Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP 16 mb
        Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital model 0100 (MP3+, Gamer)
        Quantum LM 30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
        Realtek 8029A NIC Card
        Optiquest V775 17" Monitor
        Actima 36X CD-Rom
        Advansys 510 SCSI Card (ISA, but good enuf for my burner)
        Yamaha 6416 CD-RW
        Windows 2000 (primary)
        Slackware Linux 9.0(secondary/emergency)</font>

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        • #5
          Sethos there are many docs on RedHat website.
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