[newbie] printer recognition.
I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognition.
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Hmmm. That's a new one to me. I've never has problems with HP Laserjet 4 printers in Linux. Ever. Do you have the CUPS and HPOJ packages installed Carlton? If you decide to install cups, make sure you also grab the cups-common and cups-drivers packages as well. That might be your whole problem. While you're at it, make sure that Linux sees your printer port. Try 'lsmod' to make sure that the printer port driver modules have been loaded. You should see something like; parport_pc 32132 1 lp 9836 0 parport32040 2 parport_pc,lp in the list of installed hardware drivers. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognition.
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:25, Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Laserjet 4 is supported by Mandrake so it should find it. You did run the printer GUI in Mandrake Control Centre didn't you? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognition.
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton I am suprised that Linux didn't find it. Did you have it turned on when you booted? Usualy harddrake will find things like that on bootup. You can also use MCC or the CUPS WWW admin tool to add it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
