Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger L Sopher" <rlsopher@...>
Thanks for all the help so far, but...

  I d/l & installed cups-devel, & the two scripts to set up QTR worked
  without any errors this time, but when I tried to set up the printer
  with WebMin, there were no drivers listed for the CUPS driver, only a
  single numeral "1" (one), and also there were no options listed
  (Dither Algorithms, Image Type, etc. were not there).

  Which distribution of Linux are you using? Which version of WebMin? The
newest one had a problem with the printer module and needs to have it
updated. You can do that from WebMin in the webmin administration module.

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I'm using the boxed RH9; I d/l WebMin 1.121. After reading your kind email I
updated the printer module to ver. 1.124 but the problem remains - all I see
is a numeral "1" & no options listed etc. for CUPS.

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  I'm wondering if I need to reformat & start over with Linux (ugh)
  because I have not had any success in running Red Hat Network either.
  I can't register my hardware or RPMs for updating, & keep getting
  silly error messages when I try. Yes, I installed the Security
  Certificate update. They (Red Hat) are making Microsoft look like the
  good guys...

  If you are using the boxed set of Red Hat 9 there is a problem in getting
into the network because they changed their security setup. You can get the
updates to up2date from any of the red hat mirror sites or if you send me
your email address I will send them to you as an attachment. Once you
install those two updates you should be able to register your system and get
into rhn.redhat.com without any problem.

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I already updated the two security files & my system is registered on RHN
but I can't send my hardware or RPM info; I get a "Problem sending hardware
profile" (or similar) message & when I click OK the window inviting me to
register the system is still there & if I try again I get the same error,
but now (unknown to me at first) I have a 2nd system registered on RHN with
the same name. I tried unchecking the hardware profile & then I received
"Problem sending RPM profile". I had 5 duplicate systems listed on the Red
Hat Network website before I figured out what was happening. So I deleted
them all & tried again with the same result... ouch

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  I agree Red Hat has become a pain in the tuchus since they decided to  go
exclusively "big time." I am looking at other distros to see if any that are
reasonably user friendly to the non Linux buff would be a good home for QTR.
SuSE looks promising but my Linux box and SuSE have some incompatibilities
that make loading it a bit tricky. I am going to try one of the debian
versions over the next few weeks to see if they do any better.


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Thanks for all your efforts Roger. I am feeling pretty frustrated and don't
know that I want to invest more time trying SuSE or any other Linux distros
for that matter. The irony in all this is that I am the "computer guy" at
the small company I work for, doing all the routine network admin (with an
ancient NT 3.51 server - HA!) and desktop support in addition to the
graphics work. They think I am some kind of miracle-worker who knows
everything but Linux reveals the truth - I know next to nothing!
-Barry