SUSE 10.0 can't detect parallel port + updating to firefox 1.5
Hi I have SUSE 10.0 installed and it doesn't detect my parallel port (SUSE 9.3 did not problem). How can I force a detection? What is failing?
My second question is how do I upgrade from firefox 1.0.7 to 1.5? As far as I am aware there are no updates on the installation sources. Mat |
On the parallel port I am not sure, try turning off DMA for it in the bios. As for upgrading to Firefox 1.5, go to the main site, the linux version is available to download and install from there, instructions and all.
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What's the DMA?
Mat |
I fixed a similar problem--not being able to print to the parallel printer port--by changing the computer's parallel port BIOS settings from EPP, ECP or ECP/EPP (I forgot which it was) to Normal.
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Regarding Firefox 1.5, I recommend staying with 1.0.7 for now. I tried 1.5 and removed it from my system. The problems included the Extensions behaving erratically, the Extension manager (or whatever it is called) not performing as expected, no setting in Preferences to keep web sites from installing sofware on your computer, etc. :twocents:
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DMA means Direct Memory Access versus a program reading one character at a time.
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There was no setting 'Normal'. There was a selection of weird three digit numbers/letters. I did not see the combinations EPP/ECP anywhere in the selection.
Mat |
What's plugged into the parallel port? Linux waits for something to be connected to any port before announcing or configuring for it.
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Just wanted to say I have the exact same problem and my HP810c printer was connected to the parallel port..BTW same thing in 9.3 as well as 10.0
jolphil |
here is how to do it
go to
http://penguin-breeder.org/kernel/download/ download the file ppscsi-beta.tar.gz unpack and go to ppscsi-beta2/ then: make insmod ppscsi.ko insmod epst.ko Then to go yast and it will detect the scanner. However you will have to pick the correct model (mine is a hp scanjet 5100c). |
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I will keep playing with the BIOS settings for now. The weird thing is that it worked for 9.3 just fine and then when I took it off I couldn't detect it again. I have bought the version rather than downloading it so I should get some support from Novell, I will see what they advise.
As for firefox 1.5, it seems to work fine for me, I was wondering if all I had to do to upgrade it was just replace the thing in /usr/bin and /etc/preload.d with the 1.5 versions Mat |
If you change the firefox link in /usr/bin to the directory where you installed 1.5 many things will work correctly, including the preload.
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I have been using exclusively FF 1.5 since beta2, mostly for the update features and the tab reordering which I find vastly useful, but also for certain themes. I have had no issues in Windows XP or SuSE 10 with KDE 3.5 thru the past few kernels. I highly recommend it, and I used the ftp.suse.com/pub/projects rpm to upgrade my FireFox in SuSE.
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I still can't get my printer to work on Suse 10.0. Any one any ideas? Will 10.1 have the solution?
Mat |
That depends... my guess is the printer won't be too hard.
as root, Start with "lspci". See what is listed for the port. Then check "lsmod" and see if it is loading good drives through the "dmesg", if not an error sometimes shows up mentioning a specific other module to try, in which case you would just "modprobe newmodulename" and then the port should show up. If not, you may have to dig a bit deeper. Once the port is working, you can work on the printer, one step at a time.(though since old style P Ports are being slowly depreciated in kernel and therefore linux distros, it isn't as easy as it once was. The defaults for many are being turned off, mostly because having every module in the book on slows down the system, and there is no point keeping hardware people rarely use anymore in as it declines even more). |
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