sorry ray. i meant to state in my last post that i did recompile the kernel
with parallel port support. i didnt see any mention of the line printer
though.
still having same problem
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, you wrote:
> At 12:33 PM 4/11/99 -0700, David Erdman wrote:
> >I have tried cat <file> > /dev/lp0 and get the no such device
> >when i use printtool to setup and test the printer....lp0-3 all say not
> >detected. when i setup anyways on lp0, it says lpr: connect: connection
> refused
> >jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >I have reset lpd.....???? I am clueless.
>
> I think you didn't understand Michael's original reply to you. He wrote:
>
> >> You probably didn't compile parallel port or line printer support in. You
> >> will probably have to re-compile the kernel.
>
> You can't fix this by looking for /dev/lp* devices after the fact. You need
> to add parallel printer support to the kernel itself, either by recompiling
> or as a module. Since I haven't moved to 2.2.x yet, I can't give you the
> full details ... but when the system is booting, look for a message from the
> kernel that it has detected a parallel port on some IO port. If you don't
> see one there (you can also check in /proc/interrupts or /proc/ioports), it
> confirms that you need to fix this problem at the kernel level.
>
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