I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up, it didn't print, and we got the following error:
$ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 6836 active Unspooler: pid 6837 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, sleeping 10 at 21:36:37 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 523 slidemac.tex 2625 18:02:38 I thought the problem was that we hadn't yet set up /etc/printcap properly. After copying across the appropriate files from the old laptop (on which printing worked fine - and it also used Debian), I tried printing again. This time I couldn't even get a print job to queue: $ lpr temp.txt connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused job 'cfA812genoa.ist.flinders.edu.au' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed $ lpq Host 'localhost' - cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection refused I even tried running magicfilterconf again (we use magicfilter), but the file generated had the same problem as just above. Is there something wrong with /dev/lp1? Or is something else wrong? Any help gratefully accepted. Cheers, Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/