[newbie] Printing Problems in 6.5

[Wendell E. Gragg]

Ok.  As I mentioned in my rant yesterday, I have a printing problem.  I run on a Compaq Presario 4862.   I installed Mandrake 6.5 in a dual boot setup with Win98se.  Everything I have tested seems to work with the exception of printing.   After installation, I went to Printtool and defined a printer (HP Deskjet 722C before I found out it was was Win printer).  I told the program to send out a test page both to the spooler and to the port.  I received a message stating that the test page printed.  Printer response, nothing.   I tried it with a Canon BJC6000 which I found from the printing Howto site is supposed to work.  Same response.  I don't get any kind of activity from the printer at all.  I checked out some books and followed the advice there.  I did a dmesg from a console window and found that parport recognized both of my printer ports and even recognized the proper printer attached to LPT1 (P0).   I checked the config files that I could find and the proper entries for parport seem to be there.  I installed tunelp and tried to assign irq7 to the parallel port.  Still nothing happens when I print, not even a blinking printer light.   I removed my second port on the off chance that maybe it was causing a conflict.  Same result.  I completely reinstalled from scratch, thinking that maybe I had screwed up in the install.  Same result.   Do any of you have any ideas?  I am about at my wits end here.  If I was at least getting an error message, I might know where to turn, but I am not even getting that!   Thanks in advance! Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED]