Re: printing not working
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:43:56PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually
> had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up,
> it didn't print, and we got the following error:
>
> $ lpq
> Printer: lp@genoa 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry'
> Queue: 1 printable job
> Server: pid 6836 active
> Unspooler: pid 6837 active
> Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1,
Do you have printer support compiled in the kernel?
does "echo "Here I am" > /dev/lp1" work? If not, recompile your kernel and
activate parallel printer support.
Marcus
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