Here's a tough one...........

[Lend273]

I am currently running Libranet Debian and I love it. However, I still cannot get my Lexmark 5770 printer to work. I DID get it to work in SuSE 7.1 .
Both distros are running on the same box.
Now the question:
How can I transfer or import my printer settings from SuSE to Libranet?
I'm assuming that printer setting in Linux are not distro specific as they all use the same driver base. Am I wrong in that assumption?
Thanks for the help :)
Len

[Tyr-7BE]

You're not wrong in that assumption, but I don't think this would be possible. In order to get your printer working you must have the modules compiled, and the format of the modules depends on a lot of system-specific things, as well as the kernel. You can give it a shot, sure. Just place the module in the right place (somewhere under /lib/modules/<kernelversion>...good luck), and insmod it then modprobe, but I think it's a longshot.
Your kernel should probably support the addition of new modules, so I'd say the best thing to do would be to find out what type of driver it uses, compile the module from source (you can get the source code from the company FTP server or pretty much anywhere else in the world :) instructions are given in the source file), and see if that works.

[ 26 March 2001: Message edited by: Tyr-7BE ]