CUPS printing and faxing problem

Stephen Liu satimis at icare.com.hk
Thu May 15 10:18:44 CEST 2003


Hi Matthias,

Thanks for your advice.

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 03:34, Matthias Posseldt wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 17:18, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > On terminal window
> > As ROOT
> > # echo ath1 > /dev/modem
> > # echo ath0 > /dev/modem
> > (no response)
> 
> You won't get a response here if you don't use a terminal *program* like 
> minicom or similar. This is because you sent a command to the modem but don't 
> listen to responses so this information gets lost somewhere.

Noted with thanks

> So, does your fax work if you don't use kdeprint? Can you print? You had a 
> printer configured correctly, didn't you? The KDESendFax pseudo printer 
> doesn't use CUPS at all.

I could not fax at all.  I can print only using the 'Generic printer' of
OpenOffice1.0.1.  kdeprint could not work.

B.Regards
Stephen



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