Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi all! I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly appreciated!!! lpq says this when I try to print: Status: cannot open

Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hi all! I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly

Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I still get this when I switch to lp1 in printcap and restart lpd. Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 15:00:54 Any other ideas? Thanks! Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers have been swapped for

Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:02:44PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: I still get this when I switch to lp1 in printcap and restart lpd. Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 15:00:54 Any other ideas? I had a similar problem, make

Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hi all! I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(.