What can you do when RH 6.1 doesn't see the parallel port? Printtool
doesn't detect any printer. I have an HP Deskjet 600. Works fine in DOS,
find in Win98, zip in Linux.
The documentation about parport is confusing. Can someone clarify?
Mike W
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Subject:
Re: Can't access printer...
Date:
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:39:53 +0100
From:
David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !
RedHat came with a broken print spooler (lpr), this makes printing
close
to impossible. You have to install a new and working lpr-package. There are
rpms available and you can just do a brutal install with rpm -ihv --force
lpr*.rpm. After that printtool will work great and printing is no problem.
You may check before, if you can access the parallel port directly. You can
do that with cat anyfile > /dev/lp0. If then the printer spits out sth, you
can be sure that RH knows the port and can access it.
Have fun printing, Greez
Dave
> Hi,
>
> Installed RH 6.1 just fine, but unfortunately forgot to turn on
> printer (Epson Color 640) before install. Tried to use printtool to
> configure, but refused to find printer. Tried setting printer to
> /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1, neither worked. Spooler is there, but no
> output to printer. Help?
>
> Joe Kelch
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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