From: Peter Garrett <peterg@fishinternet.com.au>
To: linux-newbie list <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can't Print
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 13:05:05 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083467105.5859.8.camel@DebiAnarchist> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040501055536.01f40bb0@celine>
Peter;
Fo what it's worth - I use a parallel-port printer (LaserJet 6L) and
$ lsmod | grep parport
parport_pc 25608 1 (autoclean)
parport 23336 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
So I think Ray is right and you are missing a module...
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 04:12 PM 5/1/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:
>
> >heisspf@skyinet.net said:
> > > On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection
> > and RH
> > > 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
> >
> >Thanks Ray!
> >
> >In /etc/hosts I had to remove @localdomain from localhost@localdomain and lpd
> >started and placing the print jobs nicely into the print queue, however,
> >nothing is being printed.
> >
> >On booting I get: Starting lp: Warning printer: cannot open '/dev/lp0' 'No
> >such device or address'.
> >
> >dmesg gives: lp: driver loaded but no device found.
> >
> >lsmod shows: parport 2 (autoclean) [lp]
> >
> >I have not an onboard parport but a singel parallel PCI card with chipset
> >NM9805CV. It worked perfectly when I tried it on my other PC with slackware
> >9.1.
> >
> >What have I to do that the device /dev/lp0 is found. It is in /dev/:
> >
> >ls -l /dev/lp0
> >crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Apr 28 1995 /dev/lp0
> >
> >Regards
> >--
> >Peter
>
> Peter -- You will probably get a better answer later from someone who
> actually uses a parallel printer (mine uses Ethernet; it's been years since
> I set up a parallel printer on a Linux system) ... but I **think** you also
> need the module parport_pc to use a parallel printer.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-02 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-30 4:00 Can't Print Peter H.
2004-04-30 5:10 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-05-01 8:12 ` Peter
2004-05-01 12:57 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-05-02 3:05 ` Peter Garrett [this message]
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2004-05-09 10:19 Peter H.
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