Dale Morris (dlm@well.com) wrote: > I'm still trying to get my printer working, not much luck. When I run > dmesg it shows: > > PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0 > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > Starting kswapd v1.8 > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) > parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) > parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 600 > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > > This means the printer is being detected, no? Yet, since this compiled > into the kernel rather than built as a module the lsmod command does me > no good. Is there another command I can use to find if this is working? > I tried installing printtool and it detects nothing on any of the ports > lp0, lp1, etc.. Perhaps try something simple, such as: echo test > /dev/lp0 If it prints something, then do: echo -ne \\f > /dev/lp0 Which will eject the page. Let's see if that works before going any further.. HTH, Ron -- Email: <rbf@farrer.net> or <rbf@debian.org>
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