Still Need Help

Reshat Sabiq sabiq at csociety.org
Sat Jul 10 16:42:33 UTC 2004


wrgraves2 wrote:

>Hello People,
>	At first I was thinking that my ignorance of Fedora Core 2 simply prevented 
>me from getting my Epson Stylus C62 printer to work. I have 'upgraded' my 
>computer that was running Red Hat 7.3 The printer worked with RH 7.3 but is 
>very unstable with FC-2. I've gone to the websites suggested, followed the 
>help menus on the system-config-printer dialog box and even got the Fedora 
>Linux 2 book for Dummies.  Two days ago, on booting, Kudzu ask me if I wanted 
>to configure my printer, which it correctly identified. I said configure and 
>then set up the printer with system-config-printer as root. Much to my 
>amazement the printer was recognised when rescaned and the whole system 
>worked. So I said to apply the changes and  thought I had solved this 
>problem. But, on rebooting the computer the next time, kudzu comes up and 
>tells me that the Epson has been removed. Why? I have tried in with no 
>success to replicate the one time when this worked. Since I need the printer 
>for my business this is more that just annoying. 
>Bill Graves
>
>
>  
>
If it told you that Epson had been removed, and then again that 
(another) Epson had been added, then it's natural. This is what happened 
when i moved a USB mouse to PS/2, for me. But if it did - w/o the +, 
then that' a problem.
Overall, looks like peripherals will be the greatest challenge for 
non-commercial desktops.

My 2 cents,
<rsa/>
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