Linux How To???

[Sethos]

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

[nehalmistry]

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

http://localhost:631

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

[Sethos]

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

[nehalmistry]

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

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

http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/

[WyWyWyWy]

Sethos there are many docs on RedHat website.