Britton wrote: > > 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)?
Recompiled kernel again this morning with parallel support checked. I'm almost positive it was on last compile as well. But I still have problems. When I boot up I get message: "lp no devices found." I'm wondering if I could have chosen something else in menuconfig that would interfere with parallel printing but if so I sure can't figure out what it is. Ken
