On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:55:39AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get a HP 690C printer working on a woody machine, using CUPS. | What's starnge is that CUSP sees the printer, and even knows what tyoe it | is, but it's not working. | | Here is some useful (I hope) info: [dmesg output]
| teddy:~# ls -l /dev/lp* | crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp0 | crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp1 | crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jan 21 09:51 /dev/lp2 Unless you're using devfs this means nothing. (well, it means your /dev is setup correctly, but it has no correspondence to actual hardware) | teddy:~# cat < /etc/services > /dev/lp0 | bash: /dev/lp0: No such device | teddy:~# | Script done on Mon Jan 21 09:54:29 2002 | | So it appears as though something is wrong with communication to teh | printer, correct? Yep. Not a CUPS problem. | I've got parallel port, and the IEE support compiled in the kernel. | | So what do I check next? Usually it's the 'lp' module, assuming you have 'parport' and 'parport_pc' (was this an x86 machine?) already loaded. I've got them compiled statically right now, # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y HTH, -D -- Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion. Proverbs 11:22