Thanks for the reply Ray.
Still doesn't work.
> Not sure what your problem is, but here are thing to check.
I'm completely new to this one. I've never even owned one. Used them but never
had to troubleshoot one, especially with Linux.
> 1. Where were you running it from? If not from /, then dev/lp1 would not
> find /dev/lp1 .
I tried it both ways and from /dev.
> 2. Does /dev/lp1 exist or not? (ls -l /dev/lp*).
Yup, it's there. actually there is an lp1, lp2, and an lp0.
> 3. Which device is your printer actually connected to? /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1?
> (Which way it's setup, even on a system with one parallel port, varies a bit
> by distribution and kernel version, and I don't know which one RH 6.1 uses.)
I tried all 3.
> 4. Are you loading the parport module (or do you have parport support in the
> kernel)?
I couldn't find anything about parport in man, help, or info. Is this short for
paperport?
Isn't there a way to ping accessories? To find out if there is a physical route
to them? That would make life really easy. Especially my problems with the
mouse, NIC, modem, and this one. Somebody has to have found a way.
John
>
> At 12:34 PM 2/5/00 -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>
> >I am setting up my girlfriend's HP 712C printer with RH6.1.
> >
> >I d-loaded ppa-0.8.6.tar (pbm2ppa is the actual driver file) and tarred
> >it.
> >
> >Like the install README said, I tried:
> >
> >cat $1 | gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- | \
> >pbm2ppa - - > dev/lp1
> >
> >Which returns:
> >
> >bash: dev/lp1: No such file or directory
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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