Re: Documentation Standards was Re: [ox-en] UserLinux
- From: Martin Hardie <auskadi tvcabo.co.mz>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:48:16 +0200
On Saturday 06 December 2003 11:20, Benni Baermann wrote:
Sorry, i dont get this. In my experience free software is the best
documented software available on this planet.
Beni for my part I was responidng to Niall's comment which I found quite
interesting from the point of view of seeing the FLOSS community or that part
of it inhabited by the devleopes as a techno elite.
For soemone like em having the source code is next to useless. What I need is
knowledge. So as someone who has started using FLOSS in the last year or so
and is not a techie I soemtimes find instructions and even books (eg Running
Linux) a little bit difficult.
They all presume some knowledge you can only either get through practice* or
by being initiated into the knowledge by some (more) senior user.
Thus I get something like this below and my eyes just glaze over and even to
do soemthing like this I need a guru to help me rather than just ahving some
plug and play. But I am not complaining
This message is for who has an HP Laserjet 1000 or 1000w and would like to
make it work on a redhat linux system, optionally with samba sharing:
1. follow the instructions on http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/foo2zjs/
to download and install.
1.1 sometimes the ./getweb util fails with "Invalid PORT" and retries
forever so ftp yourself ftp.hp.com:
$ ftp ftp.hp.com (user: anonymous pwd: your email)
ftp> cd /pub/softlib/software1/lj1488/lj-1145-2
ftp> get lj1488en.exe
ftp> quit
$ unzip -o lj1488en.exe sihp1000.img (this will unzip the
firmware
for your printer)
2. connect and power up your printer
3. $ cat sihp1000.img > /dev/usb/lp0 (this will init your printer with
its firmware)
4. use /usr/bin/redhat-config-printer and create a new queue using the Zj
Stream driver
5. test it (make sure cups is running - /sbin/service cups start):
$ cd <dir where you unpack foo2zjs>
$ lpr -P <your queue name> testpage.ps (this should print a test page
with
redhat simbol and some infos)
6. if you have the original smb.conf it should share your printes for
samba clients (Windows etc..)
enjoy ;->
* Practice or Prxis and FLOSS is another interesting thing. I think its
relationship to thinking in the sense for example as described by Deleuze
that is as problem solvingis soemthing we could talk about at some time - but
that is another story
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