From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't Print
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 05:57:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040501055536.01f40bb0@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040501081232.9504E301F7@heisspf>
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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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 [this message]
2004-05-02 3:05 ` Peter Garrett
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2004-05-09 10:19 Peter H.
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