In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael H.
Warfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>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
I don't get anything containing "parport" in the resulting list.
> If you don't, you need to load a parallel port driver...
I have hunted around the man pages, the RedHat manual and in a Linux
book and can't find how to load a driver. Can you tell me what I have
to do?
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A. W. Young
http://www.tylehurst.demon.co.uk/
