Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a
LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in
my 700MHz Inspiron 5000e laptop the Woody dist (It seems necessary to get
X correctly configured) and everything else seems to work correctly (I
didn't try to compile neither sound support nor APM yet). My problem is
that I am not able to "communicate" with the printer.
Reading the Printing-HOWTO it seems necessary to disable PnP
support for the parallel port from the BIOS setup, what I am not sure how
to do it. In any case I have tried the various setup configurations for
the parallel port and none of the allowed me to "talk" to the printer. I
got /dev/lp[0,1,2,21] but sending a file to these devices had any effect
on the printer (Normally lp1 and lp2 complained the device doesn't exist
and lp0 does nothing and display no error message. I would appreciate
greatly some help or hint on this. The output of the command: cat
/proc/parport/0/* in my system is the following
MODEL:Unknown device;
MANUFACTURER:Unknown vendor;
lp
base: 0x378
irq: none
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPPS2
none
Thans
CURRO
