Hi PackRat, VastOne

@ PackRat Wireless

@ VastOne Yes I have tried multiple sites and get different reading from them all but none of them give a high speed reading. All add-ons are disabled

Thanks for the replies folks 

Hi All.

I have just had a 50 Meg connection installed in the house, the only thing is it is very slow less than 1 Meg and I was wondering if there is something I am supposed to do in Linux. I have a dual boot with Windows 8 and I get about 16 Meg on that still slow but a lot better that Linux. Any ideas or help please ?

Hi All.

Thanks for all your help with this problem but in the end it was down to me, I hadn't connected the wireless gismo to the computer, I thought that it would simply use the router  still got there in the end 

Hi PackRat

Sorry for the apparent delay in replying. I did post a reply but have just notice that for some reason or other that it has not posted it. Anyway I did use synaptic to check to see if it was there, and it was, but never the less I reinstalled it several time just to be sure. I also clicked on the fix broken packages bit but nothing seem to happen, again I did it several times.

I have been looking in all the cups bits to see if I could find out where it says how to connect to the port ( USB ) so that I could possibly alter it but cant find it and I can't open lpdamin ( Probably a good thing knowing me ). Do you have any ideas where the Port selection is located so I can have a go at that ?

Hi PackRat.

found the firmware-realtek file thing it is in usr/share/bug, I assume from that that it is in the wrong place, where should it be ? and can I just move it ?

cheers

Hi PackRat

I mean that localhost:631 wouldn't sort out the problem, it will only let me print via cable not wireless. Can't even get it to work on windows 8 either for that matter and it is supposed to be a windows printer. Something to do with the realtek RTL8187L driver. I have it downloaded for Linux but have to learn about make makefile and other stuff now

Hi jedi

thanks for that. I am already a member lpadmin but I  keep trying

Hi PackRat

Just noticed that I never answered the first part of you post

Is your computer using the same router to connect to the internet, or are you setting up some sort of print server?


the answer to which is that I use the same router for everything.

I have just remembered that a have a USB Adaptor which doesn't work either although I think it is supported. It is a Netgear WG111v2 which uses a realtek driver RTL8187L so I am trying to sort that as well 

Hi PackRat,

Thanks for that.

Your first command came up

cups.path                               enabled
cups-browsed.service              enabled
cups.service                           enabled
cups.socket                           enabled

the other two came up with

Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1


How do I start D-Bus please ?

Hi VastOne and PackRat.

@ VastOne.  As far as I am aware all cups is loaded but having said that I went onto synaptic package manager and ticked a load of other cups stuff including system-config-printer and it failed to download anything, something to do with broken packages.

@ PackRat. I connected to my router using the on board wizard on the printer which connects every time with no trouble. its getting the computer to use my router that is the ( or seems to be ) the problem. Even localhost:631 doesn't work.

Anyway thanks to both for your valued time and assistance. been at it for about 3 hours now and still trying 

Hi Folks

Bought myself the above printer after I had found and download the drivers for the printer. The problem is that it is supposed to be WIFI only I can't get it to work.
The printer itself has found and logged onto my router with no trouble but I can't get it to print so I assume that I am missing a driver for the computer or do I have to do something else. I have been on the brother site to check for a wifi driver but there doesn't appear to be one. I have tried several other sites for info but with no luck so far. Any assistance out there please as I surely need it 

Hi  PackRat

Thanks for the info, as I said was just wondering if there was any real point in adding the suggested packages but as everything seem to work for me OK i guess there is no point 

Hi All

Every time I install a new Program it comes up with the packages that it needs to work followed by a suggested bunch which I have no time to write down to try and install them. Is it possible for the programmers to add a a line that would allow you to select the suggestions before or after it has done the install thus allowing you to select them if you want to ? not that I have any idea what the additional packages would do to the program other the take up some drive space of course. Just wondering that's all

Hi  PackRat

Sorry about the late reply but been rather busy recently .On holls now though. I did try both ways but as I said it was and still is my fault. Trying to run 32 bit XP on 64 bit  motherboard, only need it for one program so have tried wine but without any luck so far though

Hi VastOne

Thanks for that but it was down to me actually, I was trying to use separate partitions for boot, root and home as I did with Crunchbang, Forgot that you don't use that system and I also formatted sda1 to ext2 which you don't use either, Talk about messing things up, I don't half make it hard for myself. Still all working now having read your installation guide  in the end. All I have to do now is to try and install  Windows and not mess up the MBR hopefully