From: Christopher S. Wilson (cwilson@Xenon.Stanford.EDU)
Date: 02/15/93


From: cwilson@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher S. Wilson)
Subject: Re: Help w/ networking and lpr please
Date: 16 Feb 1993 00:19:58 GMT

In article <1993Feb15.221436.4506@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> anurag@astro.as.arizona.edu (Anurag Shankar) writes:
>My kernel (.99pl5) recognizes my wd8003 card but I can't use telnet,
>ftp etc. I setup the /etc/hosts file, made sure rc.net was setting
>up my ethernet port (basically that config was configuring eth0 with
>the settings it was supplied with), then rebooted. Still no go.
>It keeps saying "wd8003 timed out" or something like that. What more
>do I have to do to telnet and ftp to another machine?
>
>I might add that when I use my ethernet card from DOS with NCSA telnet,
>it works just fine.
>
>I finally got lpr to work with dvilj2p and with gs, but printing plain
>ascii files still doesn't work. It will print them correctly if there
>is a carriage-return (^M) at the end of each line. Otherwise it prints
>first line, then the second line halfway across the page, the next line
>further down, and so on. I am printing to a HP Laserjet IIP.
>
>Thanks.
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>Anurag Shankar, Research Associate, (602)-621-9532 (work)
>Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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