Re: Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, we swam to atlantis wrote: > Hello. > > I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to > work with Potato, but have had no luck. > > I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following: ... It might be easiest to start with 'm

Re: Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya.. is the dj and lpd directory owned by lp and writable by group ?? and I'd guess you should make /dev/lp a symlink to /dev/lp0 if your printer is connected to the parallel port -->> erase your /dev/lp as you have show below -- it is NOT a char device ) -->> also change your printcap sta

Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread we swam to atlantis
Hello. I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to work with Potato, but have had no luck. I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following: In /etc/printcap i've written #LOCAL djet812C lp|dj|deskjet:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\ :