BUgger, i found the cause of my problem, Didnt have parrallel printer support
in the kernel. Left it out when getting freeS/WAN to work :/
Now any suggestions on how to specify a custom paper size?
dave
excuse the root - i'm only on this puta for a few more hours
root wrote:
> Damnit, I'm getting exactly the same error here. It seems that the
> partport_pc detects the parrallel port ok, but i can't send any jobs to the
> printer. I have removed the entire spool directory, upgraded to the latest
> lprng. It is also saying now that it can;t write to the device lp0. There
> seems to be some problem creating the device.
> How do i get linux to talk to lp0 properly? The bios detects it correctly at
> 378, where does it say that this parra port equals this device? I'm a bit
> stuck until i can get this working.
>
> thanks,
>
> dave
>
> Adrian van den Dries wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Had to reboot a server here, and I find that lpd is dead. The init script
> > starts OK, but when using lpr:
> >
> > lpr: connect: Connection refused
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >
> > Also, there's nothing bound locally to port 515.
> >
> > It seems, though, that some jobs are in fact going through the queue (I'm
> > doing this remotely, and I'm told some of my test messages get through).
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
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