From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't Print
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:10:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040429220345.01efcb48@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040430040015.640AF333CC@heisspf>
At 12:00 PM 4/30/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection and
>RH 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
>
>On booting starting lpd I get:
>
>--localhost Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!
>
>The same message I get when trying to print a test page in printer-config.
>
>I configured a simulated Internet connection, the problem remains.
>
>I am an old RedHat hand so-to-speak and this is the first time I can't get
>the
>printer to work. On all previous installations the PCs had modems attached.
>
>Could this be the problem that there is none. Would be strange so.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
Well ... your question makes me realize that I've never, in 10 years, set
up a Linux system that did not have a network connection (LAN or dialup).
But ... lpd is a daemon that listens on TCP port 515, so it does need a
TCP/IP stack running. Since you "configured a simulated Internet
connection", I infer you are running a kernel with the necessary TCP/IP
support.
Do you have an "lo" interface, and is it configured as 127.0.0.1/8 ?
Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts that resolves "localhost" to that
address ... that is, a line like --
127.0.0.1 localhost
Just fishing here, really. You probably skipped some required step, but if
it isn't one of the ones I mention, I cannot think what ti might be.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-30 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-30 4:00 Can't Print Peter H.
2004-04-30 5:10 ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
2004-05-01 8:12 ` Peter
2004-05-01 12:57 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-05-02 3:05 ` Peter Garrett
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2004-05-09 10:19 Peter H.
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