Some weird printer problems

[Net Llama!]

what kind of hardware?

davidaikema at shaw.ca wrote:
> 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?

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