On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:43:56PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually > had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up, > it didn't print, and we got the following error: > > $ lpq > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry' > Queue: 1 printable job > Server: pid 6836 active > Unspooler: pid 6837 active > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1,
Do you have printer support compiled in the kernel? does "echo "Here I am" > /dev/lp1" work? If not, recompile your kernel and activate parallel printer support. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
