On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | In answer to some questions. | My ISP connection is dialup.
Have you tried wvdial? Sometimes that works quite nicely with little configuration necessary. | When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get | the message "installation failed". I think that I succeeded at one time | afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer | was shown. AFAIK the 'lp' module was the old way the linux kernel handled the parallel port. You need the parport and parport_pc modules. (Just add them to /etc/modules) | Testing with echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 does not use /etc/printcap. However, I | have used magicfilter and apsfilter with no success. Do you get any results from echoing "hello"? What about after loading the parport and parport_pc modules? HTH, -D
