On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Ken Januski wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian from binaries about a year ago. Today I finally > compiled from the source code. Most everything seems fine except for > printing. Using lpq I get message asking if my printer "is offline?". > Trying to print from Netscape I get "lpr:connect Connection refused. > Jobs queued but cannot start daemon."
If you are using a parallel port printer, did you remember to enable parallel port support in the kernel (strangely, I think it is off be default)? > And yet a ps -aux | grep lpd shows 2 copies running. I can kill one but > problem remains. One of those may have been the grep process itself. > Any ideas? Could I have set up something incorrectly in kernel? Just the one above. Good luck. Britton
