hope everyone doesn't mind most of the posts being by me. Anyway, I
am trying to get printing going, which I have done before, and I can
not seem to get basic output to go out the parallel port. I checked
my kernel configuration, and I realized that I did not have parallel
support compiled into the kernel. I checked the parallel support (directly
compiled in, not as a module) and I recompiled. Here is the output of
debian:/usr/src/linux# uname -a Linux debian 2.2.12 #6 Thu Sep 9 23:37:55
PDT 1999 i586 unknown
I then tried the hello world redirected to the lp devices. Here is what I get.
debian:/usr/src/linux# cat "hello world" > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device
debian:/usr/src/linux# cat "hello world" > /dev/lp1
bash: /dev/lp1: Operation not supported by device
debian:/usr/src/linux# cat "hello world" > /dev/lp2
bash: /dev/lp2: Operation not supported by device
My general experience is it sends it to the printer and I have to give
the printer a form feed by hitting the button on it and it kicks out
a sheet with hello world. Do I have to change permissions on this device?
Is there a way to check that I have parallel support actually in the
kernel? The uname seems to indicate the kernel recompile went without a
glitch.
brian
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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