George Schoelles wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get my printer working for some time now. However
> whenever I print something it goes to the queue and sits there. lpq
> returns this error and lists the print jobs pending.
>
> waiting for lp to become ready (off line?)
>
> The printer is an HPIII that works great on my 98 laptop, but is failing
>
> on my SuSE 5.3 using a AN430TX MB. I've never used this mb for anything
>
> else to test the ATX LP1 port, however it is new (not used till now) and
>
> I have no other reason to doubt the port.
>
> Any thoughts that could help me get it running would be appreciated.
If you are using the 2.036 kernel, you're probably on /dev/lp1.
Make sure you don't have a conflict with your sound card and your bios
has irq7 assigned to the printer port. Sound should be on irq5
in your case.
Does it work as root, but not as a user?
Do you have the lpd daemon started in yast?
Can you "cat textfile > /dev/lp1 " ?
If not check irqs.
If you can, then make sure the lpd daemon is started.
If root can use the printer, but users can't; then you
must add the users to the lp group.
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