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Post by alexham36 on Jan 16, 2012 23:18:33 GMT
Hi,
I am occasionally running Puppy_slacko_5.3 off a CD with slacko_save file on USB stick. My printer is Epson Stylus Office BX535WD and it is "connected" via Wi-Fi. It works perfectly in Win7 and Win XP, but Puppy does not see it at all and as far as I can tell there is no provision in Puppy for Wi-Fi connected printer.
Without a printer Puppy is of very limited use, so is there anything you can recommend as a fix, please?
Many Thanks,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Jan 17, 2012 11:07:07 GMT
I've never seen the point of having devices like keyboards, mice and now printers which are 99% of the time physically near enough to attach with cables on a wireless option myself, but I guess it's tempting for cutting down on the spaghetti factor for some. Puppy is a very specialist distro, it's really meant for older PC's which would by definition have older printers attached, or for occasional use as a rescue CD. You can't really compare it to Windows 7 (10 GB minimum installed) and there are no fixes I'm aware of, but I've never owned a wireless printer so I've never had to try and find a cure. www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=466449#466449might point you in the right direction
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Post by alexham36 on Jan 19, 2012 17:33:24 GMT
Thank you Mikkh, but no luck with that. The reason for Wi-Fi is that the printer came without the USB lead and I could not wait until I got one. I also have Canon Lide 20 scanner which is connected with USB lead and I use it in preference.
Now, tell me does Puppy Slacko have a default Root user name and password and what is it?
Many thanks,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Jan 20, 2012 10:51:19 GMT
Puppy is one of the few Linux distros that logs is as root (administrator) automatically, much to the annoyance of some Linux purists who consider it a security problem. So if you're trying to follow cures meant for other distros, you can ignore any 'su' steps and forget about putting 'sudo' before a command because it's not needed - you shoud be logged in as single (no password) user i.e as administrator (root)
You can make it have a password of your choice by using the command
passwd root
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