Can't Print

Can't Print

[Peter H.]

Hi,

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.

On booting starting lpd I get:

--localhost Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!

The same message I get when trying to print a test page in printer-config.

I configured a simulated Internet connection, the problem remains.

I am an old RedHat hand so-to-speak and this is the first time I can't get the 
printer to work. On all previous installations the PCs had modems attached.

Could this be the problem that there is none. Would be strange so.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Regards
-- 
Peter

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Re: Can't Print

[Ray Olszewski]

At 12:00 PM 4/30/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>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.
>
>On booting starting lpd I get:
>
>--localhost Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!
>
>The same message I get when trying to print a test page in printer-config.
>
>I configured a simulated Internet connection, the problem remains.
>
>I am an old RedHat hand so-to-speak and this is the first time I can't get 
>the
>printer to work. On all previous installations the PCs had modems attached.
>
>Could this be the problem that there is none. Would be strange so.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.


Well ... your question makes me realize that I've never, in 10 years, set 
up a Linux system that did not have a network connection (LAN or dialup). 
But ... lpd is a daemon that listens on TCP port 515, so it does need a 
TCP/IP stack running. Since you "configured a simulated Internet 
connection", I infer you are running a kernel with the necessary TCP/IP 
support.

Do you have an "lo" interface, and is it configured as 127.0.0.1/8 ?

Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts that resolves "localhost" to that 
address ... that is, a line like --

         127.0.0.1       localhost

Just fishing here, really. You probably skipped some required step, but if 
it isn't one of the ones I mention, I cannot think what ti might be.



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Re: Can't Print

[Peter]

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



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Re: Can't Print

[Ray Olszewski]

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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Re: Can't Print

[Peter Garrett]

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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Re: Can't Print

[Peter H.]

Thanks for any help! I solved the problem. I installed the kernel of 
slackware9.1  2.4.22 and my good old Epson LX-800 came to live. This is not 
the first time this kernel 2.4.20-20.9 did mess-up things. How much time 
wasted by Richard and myself on account of an apparent defective kernel from 
Krud-Linux.
What did Ray say or similar, by his experience, with slackware most things 
work better and smoother. Darn true!

Peter said:
> Hi,
> I have made a new installation of RH9.0 2.4.20-20.9 where I have a parallel
> printer card. The system is now discovering the card.

> Doing: "more /proc/pci" I am told that the printer card is using irq 5 and
> the  io=0xd400. This is the first number to show. There are some more io.

> Only to this io does the printer react, meaning it makes that sound when the
> print head moves somewhat and only giving this io will lpq give an
> information  about the print queue. It is a dot matrix printer.

> That printer react comes when I do: insmod parport_pc io=0x400 irq=5. After
> this lpq gives the usual information about the print queue. There is  always
> an old queue around either as 'done' or now as an 'error too many  tries'.

> Now if I want to print something 'lpr file' the keyboard totally freezes and
> I  have to do a dirty reboot.

> Any help appreciated. --  Peter 



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