With the multiple levels of quoting in your replies, they've become a bit
difficult for me to read ... but it appears, from reading this one and the
others, that your Linux system not only doesn't have printer support
compiled in (is this really a stock RH installation on an Intel-compatible
host? extraordinary!) -- it can't find the physical parallel ports themselves.
So let me step back and ask about something we have all been assuming: how
do you have the printer connected to the computer? All the replies you've
received assume it is on a parallel port (lp0 or lp1), but it doesn't *have*
to be (my printer here, for example, is connected via Ethernet). Might you
be using Ethernet or a serial port? (I'm not familiar with the HP 690C, so I
don't know what its options are.) If you are, you need VERY different advice
from what we've been giving you up to now.
Related to this, when you boot the machine, what does the BIOS report about
parallel ports (this information would be somewhere, usually toward the
lower right, on the screen that comes up briefly *before* the LILO prompt)?
If, after booting, you run the command "ls -l /dev/lp*", what is the result?
At 11:09 PM 2/12/99 +0000, A W Young wrote [excerpt only]:
>>1. Look in /proc/ioports ("more /proc/ioports") for a promising entry.
>
>No mention of any kind of lp entries in /proc/ioports.
>
>>2. Look in /proc/interrupts (as above) and see what, if anything, is using
>>IRQ 5 (probably /dev/lp1) or IRQ 7 (probably /dev/lp0).
>
>Nothing on IRQ 5 or IRQ 7.
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