Re: printing not working

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> 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?

It is a module.  When I do lsmod I get:

Module         Pages    Used by
serial_cs          1            0serial             8    [serial_cs]     1
xirc2ps_cs         3            0ds                 2    [serial_cs
xirc2ps_cs]  4
i82365             5            4pcmcia_core        8    [serial_cs
xirc2ps_cs ds i82365]        0
psaux              1            1 (autoclean)
ppp                5            1slhc               2    [ppp]   1
lp                 2            0
 
So as you see, lp is loaded.

> does "echo "Here I am" > /dev/lp1" work? If not, recompile your kernel and
> activate parallel printer support.

When I do the echo command above it just hangs.

What does it mean?

Thanks,

Mark


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