Gast CPU20 wrote: > > Hey Boys and Girls! > > I want to achieve that my LaserJet 1100 provides printing for my > windows-network. Unter Suse I did this with Samba and some > printing-installing with Yast. Under Debian I heard CUPS is the right > utility. So i installed Cups and tried to configure it with my printer. The > problem is, that Cups only gives me the possibility to connect the printer to > a serial port - but my printer is on the paralell port. > The only time I've seen this, the (self-built: my bad) kernel was not set up properly to use the parallel port for printing. Take a look at your kernel configuration, especially if you built your own. There are *3* different settings you need to make to enable this:
PARPORT PARPORT_PC PRINTER Do the appropriate grep on .config. And do /dev/lp0 and/or /dev/lp1 exist at all?
