A W Young enscribed thusly:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
> >On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, A W Young wrote:
> >
> >> I have a Hewlett Packard 690C printer and RedHat Linux 5.1. If I try to
> >> print a file with the
> >>
> >> lpr hello.c
> >>
> >> command, for example, then nothing happens. If I examine the queue with
> >> lpq, then it reports either "no daemon present" or "waiting for lp to
> >> become ready (offline ?)". In the RHS Linux Print System Manager I have
> >> lp as "local printer on /dev/lp0". I have tried turning the printer
> >> off, then on again. If I move to the /etc directory and type "lptest >
> >> /dev/lp0" then nothing happens.
> >Is the printer on lp0 in RH? It's /dev/lp1 in Slackware.
> I don't know. Using the Print System Manager, I have tried changing the
> settings to lp0, lp1 and lp2. With all three of these, when I try to
> print a test page directly to port, I get the error message:
> "Couldn't write file /dev/lp0: no such device"
Ok... Stupid question time... Do you have a printer driver loaded?
Do a "cat /proc/ioports" and see if you have a line like this:
03bc-03be : parport0
If you don't, you need to load a parallel port driver...
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> A. W. Young
> http://www.tylehurst.demon.co.uk/
Mike
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