Re: lp devices

[David R Baker <dabaker@InfoAve.Net>]

Jim Crumley wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble getting printing setup with a bo.
> I have a Canon BJC-4100, but I don' think the printer
> is the problem. I had been playing around with lpr/LPRng,
> printcap, etc. when I finally realized that I forgot
> add parallel printing support when I installed Debian.
> So I went back to the rescue disk and tried adding
> the printing support and making a new boot disk,
> but that didn't work ( though it did tell me it captured
> lp1.
> 
> Then I finalled found the insmod and lsmod commands.  So
> I confirmed that the lp module wasn't loaded and then I
> loaded it.  Still no luck.
> 
> I have have tried echo/cat/more and redirecting to /dev/lp0
> - /dev/lp4 and I have gotten the error message:
> bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address
> 
> I am pretty much out of ideas.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> --
> Jim Crumley                 |
> crumley@belka.space.umn.edu |
> 

I am not an expert, but the kernel that comes with the standard
disribution has the IOMEGA Zip drive ppa parallel port driver builtin.
This isincompatible with the lp driver.  You possibly {probably?} need
to generate a custom kernel to print via the parallel port.

There is a kernel package (kernel-package) that makes this very
easy to do.

For my own system I configured the kernel to have both ppa (the zip
driver using the parallel port) and lp (the parallel port printe
driver) both set up asmodules.  This allows me to, one at a time,
use the zip drive or use the printer.

The development version of the linux kernel (2.1.*) has the ability
to do both at the same time according to "ads".

Hope this helps


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