On 7/23/12, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote: > [...] > > One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to > perform an update on that system. > > The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. > > However, another problem has arisen, that indicates that that system > apparently cannot be updated, and has to stay as it is, without having > been updated for about a year or so, which is unfortunate for a > firewall computer.
I've had fun with openBSD, and their firewall is pretty good. Have you looked at that? (Sorry if that's not an appropriate suggestion.) > I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to > use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 > system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and > became apparently unusable. > > So, I installed Debian 6 on another computer (this computer), and have > been using that on this system, for the past few or several months. > > But I was unable to install the drivers for the printer, on the Debian 6 > workstation. > > I have now been advised by Samsung, that the CLX-3185FW works with > Debian 3.x through 5.x, but does not work with Debian. In many cases with CUPS, you can find a printer that is similar and use the drivers/printer descriptors for that one instead. That's what I'm doing with an EPSON all-in-one that I bought nearly ten years ago. (Again, apologies if that's something you've already looked at.) > [...] -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOc2LNzb=6l9dkiwjiwsjusap5zj2kbw27co8uqupf...@mail.gmail.com
