> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> > Hey! Did you hear what greyn was saying on Mar 28 ?
> >
> > g> I am currently running Slackware 3.6 on an Nec P75. I am trying to set up
> > g> my printer and I have read the howto's and man pages. My problem is
> > g> that during bootup, I get the message:
> > g>
> > g> lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found.
> >
> > I had this exact same problem just the other week. Are you
> > loading the parallel printer as a module? And do you get the message:
> > can't find module parport_lowlevel ? Then add these lines to
> > /etc/conf.modules
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> > This will make your printer /dev/lp0.
I tried adding these lines but I didn't notice any changes. I am loading
the parallel printer as a module but maybe my parallel port Iomega Zip is
interfering? What exactly does the "no interfaces" mean?
> > For setting your printer up look
> > for a utility called apsfilter. Ftp it from...
> > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing
Thanks. I've installed it from the Slackware contrib directory on my
cdrom.
Thanks,
greyn
