[newbie] printer recognition.

2005-03-17 Thread Carlton Matthew
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

Re: [newbie] printer recognition.

2005-03-17 Thread Mr. Geek
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

Re: [newbie] printer recognition.

2005-03-17 Thread Derek Jennings
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

Re: [newbie] printer recognition.

2005-03-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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