Some weird printer problems

[David Aikema]

On June 14, 2002 06:23 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> what kind of hardware?

Motherboard has an i810e chipset.  Printer is an Epson Stylus Color 400.

David Aikema

> 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?