On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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?
It is a module. When I do lsmod I get:
Module Pages Used by
serial_cs 1 0serial 8 [serial_cs] 1
xirc2ps_cs 3 0ds 2 [serial_cs
xirc2ps_cs] 4
i82365 5 4pcmcia_core 8 [serial_cs
xirc2ps_cs ds i82365] 0
psaux 1 1 (autoclean)
ppp 5 1slhc 2 [ppp] 1
lp 2 0
So as you see, lp is loaded.
> does "echo "Here I am" > /dev/lp1" work? If not, recompile your kernel and
> activate parallel printer support.
When I do the echo command above it just hangs.
What does it mean?
Thanks,
Mark
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