On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I installed Debian 2.2 recently and the process went pretty smoothly > except for lp module for printer support. The installation of the module > fails even though I have a printer connected to the parallel port and I > can't figure out whether it's parameter thing or something else. Could > anyone help me? > > Thanks. > > Seung-woo Nam >
You are not the only one. There seems to be some problem with kernel 2.2.17 or the printer daemon lprng 3.6.12-6 or lpr. There are many people on this list who are able to get a printout to the raw device by doing a "cat TxtFile > /dev/lpN" (where N is their port polled device) but lpr is not being able to use the polled port for some reason (i.e the command "cat TxtFile | lpr" fails).For all such cases lp support has been built into the kernel and perm- issions of spool dir /files properly set. There are no plip conflicts. This matter by all probabilities would need to be referred to the kernel or the lpr/lprng main- tainers, once the cause is elucidated.I am doing a study of the problem presently .. and frankly, still quite lost ! I had posted a query three days ago on this list to have a rough estimate of the extent of the problem, on the thread "Printing : Kernel 2.2.17 problem?" but the response so far has been poor. I have no confirmation from anyone that Kernel 2.2.17 with lprng 3.6.12-6 or lpr has posed no problems. It appears that "CUPS" is okay with this kernel as confirmed by Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but that isn't the default potato / woody "lpr" or "lprng". It is somewhere between kernel 2.2.17 and the printer daemon where the problems lie. Or, could there be any other factor at play ? USM Bish