I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly.
Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Carlton
Hmmm. That's a new one to me. I've never has problems with HP Laserjet 4 printers in Linux. Ever. Do you have the CUPS and HPOJ packages installed Carlton?
If you decide to install cups, make sure you also grab the cups-common and cups-drivers packages as well. That might be your whole problem. While you're at it, make sure that Linux sees your printer port.
Try 'lsmod' to make sure that the printer port driver modules have been loaded. You should see something like;
parport_pc 32132 1 lp 9836 0 parport 32040 2 parport_pc,lp
in the list of installed hardware drivers.
HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712
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