In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray
Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>So let me step back and ask about something we have all been assuming: how
>do you have the printer connected to the computer?
It's connected by parallel cable to LPT1.
>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)?
Nothing related to parallel ports.
>If, after booting, you run the command "ls -l /dev/lp*", what is the result?
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 11 23:07 /dev/lp
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998 /dev/lp2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Nov 15 20:46 /dev/lp3
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