On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, A W Young wrote:
> 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"
If you log in a root, the command
echo TEST > /dev/lp1
should cause the printer to print the word 'TEST', at least. If you get a
"no such device" message then you need to create it with MAKEDEV (I think
that's the name). Most distributions, however, have all of these in place
with a standard install. Surely, RH isn't different in this regard!
Good luck,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879
http://www.unl.edu/physics/
