Sidney Brooks wrote:
Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed.
About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this
installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at
the time of installation was "installation successful".
So does that mean your printer is working now?
If not, does the echo test work from DOS (not DOS in Windows, but plain
DOS)? If it doesn't, I'd have to ask the obvious question, is it a
Win-Printer? (Probably not since you say below that you've used earlier
versions of Debian and therefore would know about this issue.)
I have successfully installed and used earlier versions of Debian and
am familiar with pppconfig.
I know that I am connected because the log says so. I also have an
external, U.S. Robotics, 56K modem, which lights up and used to work
with any version of linux that I tried, not only Debian and Redhat,
but Mandrake, and others.
I'd try another modem, just to test. It may be that a lightning strike
or something may have damaged the modem so that it doesn't work properly
for ppp although it connects fine. Sure it's rare, but it's worth trying.
Did your ISP rep use your modem or his to dial out with his Redhat?
I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is
2.0.38-2.0.38-3.
Even though there has been no break through yet, I appreciate all
suggestions.
