On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:14 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > > /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt > > I am having similar difficulty getting my hp720c working. After trying the > test you suggested, I still got just nothing on the printer. I have both > parport, parport_pc, and lp modules loaded, which gives me the lp0 device. > any suggestions? > > # ll lp0 > crwxrwxrw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Feb 20 14:08 lp0 > > PS the printer does work in knoppix. Does this seem like probably a kernel > issue?
Possibly - try running "dmesg" after the "cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0" and see if anything shows in the kernel logs. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
