From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Can't Print Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 05:57:29 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040501055536.01f40bb0@celine> References: <20040501081232.9504E301F7@heisspf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040501081232.9504E301F7@heisspf> References: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs