lp0 and wireless problems.

[Eric S. Johansson]

I've run into two problems with breezy, one should be simple, the other 
is understandably hard.

simple problem:

I'm trying to get a printer for a client to run off of the parallel 
port.  Under his other server with Windows it prints just fine.  Under 
ubuntu 5.10, not a peep.  Running through the same configuration process 
on my laptop with 5.10 at home, everything printed on my printer. 
obviously, the next time I go there I will try my laptop on his printers 
but I expect that everything will print OK.

I've checked that the printer is detected:

[4294687.479000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[4294687.479000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
[4294687.494000] parport0: Legacy device
[4294687.499000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

the module is loaded

parport_pc             31812  1
lp                     11460  0
parport                32072  2 parport_pc,lp

and I double checked cups to see that the right device is selected.  But 
no joy.  I also tried catting a file to lp0 but again nothing.

In my experience, this is one of those things that JFW. what else could 
I check?

harder problem:

wireless.  Yea, I hear you running away screaming.. :-)

Using a netgear wg511 card, it is detected, the right drivers (prism 54) 
are loaded by a configure wlan0 with the appropriate ssid and absolutely 
no encryption on both ends to trying keep things simple.  Through some 
magic transformation, wlan0 is transformed into eth0.  I'm unable to get 
an ethernet address and even though the lights like the right way, no 
traffic.  Not a hint of traffic.

Again, what else can I check?

--- eric