Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer. > > Never having had a printer before, I've never had to set one up under linux. > > I read the (long and waffly) printing howto and printing-usage howto , but > am having problems just getting started. > > I have pirnting support in the kernel (lp appears under /proc/devices) and > proc/ioports gives: > > <blurb> > 0378-037f : lp > <blurb> > > Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt > /dev/lp or echo hello > /dev/lp > does nothing - lpq just says: > > waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) > <the jobs waiting> > > WTF? The printers connected up Ok and the thing's on and like plugged in and > stuff - what do I have to do? What's wrong? > > My /etc/printcap has a load of entries in it (not put there by me...( > Could they be wrong? I don'#t undetrstand the printcap manpage - it just > refers to me some bloddy bsd 4.2 (?) manual! > > Thuis should be easy, no?
Uhmmmm! maybe? I don't know anything about your particular printer, but hopefully it's supported. Have you tried running magicfilterconfig? John > > > Help! > > Martin > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin
