On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:35:03PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > In response to a suggestion, I installed the parport and parport_pc > modules. After that I was able to install the lp module. > Unfortunately, after going through this whole new installation of Debian, > the result was the same. The printer does not appear in dmesg and the echo > system for printing did not work.
Are those modules _currently_ loaded when you run the echo test? Use "lsmod" to check. If they are not loaded, load them and then try the echo test. You can load them by insmod parport insmod parport_pc insmod lp Once you've got the echo test working, then you can worry about setting up your /etc/ files to do this automatically (I don't remember how this is done). If they are loaded but the echo test doesn't work, I'm not sure what to do next (though I'm sure others on the list will know). Lance Simmons
