At 09:21 PM 8/12/99 -0600, Keith Robinson wrote: >am still having no luck getting any output from my printer. is >there a way to determine if my lpd daemon is even on? Yes. "ps -ax |grep lpd" will find the process if it is running. lpc (run as root) will let you know if it is active. Beyond that, if you want detailed help, you'll need to tell us more than what is in printcap. Specifically: 1. The basics of your hardware -- computer, printer, and connection (parallel?). Do you have anything other than the printer connected to the parallel port (some pass throughts, like a ZIP drive, don't work properly with Linux)? 2. The basics of your software -- Linux distribution and version, and kernel version. Note if, on boot, the kernel finds your parallel port - you need to have parallel support in the kernel or loaded as a module. 3. Can you cat an ascii file directly to the printer's port and have it print (e.g. "cat /etc/printcap >/dev/lp0")? 4. When you say "am still having no luck getting any output from my printer", what are you trying and *exactly* what error are you getting? >Here is the content of /etc/printcap: [deleted] ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
