Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:47:22PM -0500, David Shepherd wrote: | 'modprobe lp' gives me | modprobe: Can't locate module lp | | This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. | | Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the kernel (I've never | done it before). | Can I som

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:56:30PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # 'modprobe lp' gives me > # modprobe: Can't locate module lp > # > # This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. > # > # Anything else I can try, or do I have to rec

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 'modprobe lp' gives me # modprobe: Can't locate module lp # # This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. # # Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the kernel (I've never # done it before). # Can I somehow grab the sto

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
lease excuse my lack of kernel knowledge - I'm learning fast Dave -Original Message- From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2001 2:44 p.m. To: David Shepherd Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Need help setting up pa

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Shepherd wrote: > > Typing 'insmod lp' > gives me > insmod: lp: no module by that name found > > typing find / -name 'lp.o' > finds nothing > > How should I install this module? It sounds like you've recompiled your kernel at some stage, since you don't have all of the modules com

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "David Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Typing 'insmod lp' 'insmod' takes a real file as an argument; for instance, 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.0c/kernel/drivers/block/paride/paride.o'. 'modprobe', however, doesn't need the whole file, just the name(in my example, "paride"). # gives me #

RE: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread David Shepherd
. To: David Shepherd Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Need help setting up parallel printer David Shepherd wrote: > > I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my > DeskJet695C working. > Everything worked fine under RH using pr

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
David Shepherd wrote: > > I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my > DeskJet695C working. > Everything worked fine under RH using printtool to set it up. [cut] > When I try > > echo "this is a test" > /dev/lp0 > > I get > > su: /dev/lp0: No such devi