This may or may not be relevant, but I recently had a lot of similar problems with lpr in woody. I replaced it with lprng and my printing problems disappeared.
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:38:46PM -0600, Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: > Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted > /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still > doesn't work. > > Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: > > > > > > I have just upgraded to potato. > > > > > > My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message " > > > Waiting for lp to become ready". > > > > > > I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. > > > Did I not configure this properly? > > > > If you changed kernel versions from 2.0 to 2.2 in the upgrade, you > > probably have to change /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in your printer config > > files. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen