> I presume you use a standard distribution installed kernel, if my
> memory serves me you have a recent install so the following should be
> accurate.
RH6.1
Kernel 2.2.12-20
> And i am presuming you are running kerneld to automaticly
> load kernel modules upon request, once again that is standard, ececpt
> in a Slackware distribution kernel.
>
Actually I just started it. Should I add this to rc.local?
> Make sure you have the following in /etc/conf.modules or
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
Ok. Got both of them (to be safe).
>
> Now the following is NOT a command you will need to do everytime, its
> to check all is well.
>
> modprobe lp
>
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>
> Now by doing 'lsmod' you should see.
> Module Size Used by
> parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean)
> parport_pc 5620 1 (autoclean)
> lp 5148 0 (unused)
> parport 7124 1 [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
>
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 5620 0
lp 4476 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 7124 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
is parport_probe the thingy that finds the printer (or whatever is on the parallel
port at the time)??
What about the pbm2ppa file?? If this is the driver shouldn't I have it linked from
some directory or mv it to there??? How does it know to translate the file for an HP
WinPrinter???
Or am I way off base?
> If they are there, do you cat thing but this time do /dev/lp0
> thats normally where the first printer resides.
One of them is missing as you see. Is there a command like "print screen" that I can
use instead of typing out that full cat command. That was just part of an example,
but the only command I could find.
TIA again,
John
>
>
> > 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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> >
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