Re: print trouble

[Brent Buchholz <ihatemilk@ihatemilk.org>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:44:59AM +0000, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> after recompiling my kernel I can't print any more.  I rebooted using the old
> kernel and printing worked fine then so I'm pretty sure this is the problem.  I'm
> using an HP laserjet 3p running off the parallel port.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> thanks,
> Andy
>

When you recompiled you left out support for lp.  Reconfigure and rebuild the
kernel with these options or similar.

CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y

Brent