Message-ID: <0001D958@southernunionco.com> From: "Jeff McCright" <jeff.mccright@southernunionco.com> Subject: Re: kclug - newbie question Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:36:55 -0500
If you open a terminal session as root, you can redirect output to the device directly, like so:
ls > /dev/lp0
If the printer prints, then the device is ok and you must be experiencing a spooler problem.
Jeff
jeff.mccright@southernunionco.com
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From: kclug@kclug.org
To: kclug@kclug.org
Cc: jeff.mccright@southernunionco.com
Subject: Re: kclug - newbie question
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:36:55 -0500
That did not seem to work. I tried all sorts of changes to the printcap.
The printer tool did not seem to
recognize the parallel ports at all. I do not know where the parallel ports
are set up maybe that will help.
I am using a samba smb share to print at the moment and that works but there
has to be something wrong.
dale eldridge
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Watts <watts@jayhawks.net>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: kclug - newbie question
> On Thu, 11 May 2000, dale eldridge wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am new to the linux/kclug listserv here and was wondering if
> > anyone could help me with a linux problem? I have upgraded from redhat
> > 5.1 to 6.1 and now have lost my printer port. Is there a way of
> > manually adding that port so my local printer will work again?
>
> Howdy.
>
> The thing that has changed between Red Hat 5.x to 6.x that has broken your
> printer is the new 2.2.x kernel. One of the new features of the kernel is
> that it changed the way that parallel ports were numbered.
>
> So, if your printer port was "lp1" on your old machine, it is probably
> "lp0" now. This happened to me personally. Change the line:
>
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>
> In your /etc/printcap to " :lp=/dev/lp0:\" (or vice versa) to fix this.
>
> Jeffrey.
>
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