Some weird printer problems

[davidaikema@shaw.ca]

Somehow I now find myself unable to print.  Whenever I try to startup my
system and load linux, something causes it to hang when attempting to
load lpd (the printer is now also inoperable in windows it seems) which
would seem to me to suggest a hardware problem.

Has anyone had anything similar to this happen to them before?

I guess I'll need to attempt to bypass lpd startup somehow to get the
system to boot.  Which runlevel should I be attempting to start the
machine at to do this?

David Aikema