Rolf, I am a newbie, i recently spent time going round and round with lpc trying to get my printer going till my head was in a whirl with it. I can't remember all the symptoms, and it is only debian 0.93 but the cure was getting a match between entries in /etc/printcap and /etc/conf.modules and the printer.
in /etc/printcap see the lp2 lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp2:\ in /etc/conf.modules: at the end: path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/ipv4 options sjcd 0x340,10,5 options lp2 0x278,5 those being where (I think) the bios and debian's own startup said the printer was.(I also have a note that I initted via boot/root menus telling it that is where the printer is and saved that to my custom boot disk. I have not installed lilo, but I think it has an option to put the printer details.) clare -- Clare Johnstone, University Computing Services, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6907 Tel +61 8 9380 2607, Fax +61 8 9380 1109, Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .