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- From: osynw@warp.mhd.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Beginner's problems with 386BSD
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.174358.29102@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 17:43:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Jul26.174358.29102
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- In article <712169547snx@rama.demon.co.uk> steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle) writes:
- >
- >
- >1) How do I talk to my printer ? A /dev/lp device was not created when
- > I installed the binary distribution. Is it just a simple matter of
- > doing a mknod ? If so, what are the relevant major and minor devices
- > numbers ?
- >
- The line-printer device driver does not work as supplied. There is a
- BETA version of the lpt driver on agate in unofficial/lpt-haug.patch (?).
- I have gotten it to work sporadically on my machine, but I haven't found
- out why it wouldn't work sometimes. When it works, it works great, but
- sometime's when I boot-up it recognizes it but it waits for some
- acknowledgement from the printer which never comes.
-
- >2) Should Mtools work straight out of the box ? If for example I issue
- > mdir a: it produces the message init: open: No such file or directory.
- > Most of the other mtools commands produce similar messages.
- >
- cd /dev;sh MKDEV fd0 fd1;mk_devdb
-
- This creates the specific special files that mtools needs to run. I ran
- into this and finally figured it out.
-
- >4) How do I configure the system for UK local time ? I tried symlinking
- > /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB-Eire, but this puts the clock
- > about 8 hours ahead.
- >
-
- I wish someone could tell me how to get my clock correct too. I have tried
- various combinations of things, including re-linking the kernel with
- the correct offset in the config file, re-compiling the tzinfo stuff. I too
- would like to know how to get the correct time.
-
-
-
- Nate
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