On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, John Starkey wrote:
> > I presume you use a standard distribution installed kernel, if my
> > memory serves me you have a recent install so the following should be
> > accurate.
>
> RH6.1
> Kernel 2.2.12-20
>
> > And i am presuming you are running kerneld to automaticly
> > load kernel modules upon request, once again that is standard, ececpt
> > in a Slackware distribution kernel.
> >
>
> Actually I just started it. Should I add this to rc.local?
>
> > Make sure you have the following in /etc/conf.modules or
> > /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> >
>
> Ok. Got both of them (to be safe).
>
> >
> > Now the following is NOT a command you will need to do everytime, its
> > to check all is well.
> >
> > modprobe lp
> >
>
> This gets no reply. Silently terminated :}
Then it means it is loaded and ready to go.
> Module Size Used by
>
> parport_pc 5620 0
> lp 4476 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> parport 7124 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>
> is parport_probe the thingy that finds the printer (or whatever is on the parallel
> port at the time)??
I think, (but not sure) that probe is for other hardware types, but i
could well be wrong, i dont normaly use a printer altho' i do have a
working printer here on another machine.
>
> What about the pbm2ppa file?? If this is the driver shouldn't I have it linked from
> some directory or mv it to there??? How does it know to translate the file for an HP
> WinPrinter???
I have never heard of pbm2ppa what is it.?
It sounds like a file for a zip device, we are talking printers here.
Termcap defines the way the printer prints.
> Or am I way off base?
>
> > If they are there, do you cat thing but this time do /dev/lp0
> > thats normally where the first printer resides.
>
> One of them is missing as you see. Is there a command like "print screen" that I can
> use instead of typing out that full cat command. That was just part of an example,
> but the only command I could find.
cat file > /dev/lp0
Anyway, i see a word up there "winprinter" i hope its not one of
those Windows only things.?
>
>
> TIA again,
>
> John
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