Re: Darn USB printer

[mrmoo@att.net]

Well, OK, so you didn't specifically tell her to 
recompile her kernel-- but to check out the settings she 
still needs to go through the same steps -- just not 
save changes. Of course, if she did make changes, they 
wouldn't take effect unless she ran "make bzdisk" or 
bzlilo or whatever.

I think I _have_ run across a situation or two with some 
other distros (that I've long since abandoned in favor 
of the better way) where the kernel sources were not 
already "pre-linked," for lack of a better term.

You say "Make xconfig is a great way to see what's 
available and what it does without endangering your 
working machine."  I'm not sure I follow your apparent 
implication that using xconfig necessarily protects you 
from hosing your system; you can get into or stay out of 
as much trouble with the other two options.
We're probably on the same wavelength, but just not 
understanding each other somehow... ;-)
--Mark

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> No, I was not suggesting she recompile her kernel. I was trying to tell
> her how to determine if she has usb printer support enabled. If not then
> she may need to recompile her kernel. From what I've seen the
> /usr/src/linuz symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source.... is a pretty
> standard install feature.
> 
> Kernel compiling seems to be one of the great mysteries in linux. At
> least for a lot of people. Make xconfig is a great way to see what's
> available and what it does without endangering your working machine.
> 

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