printing broken

[Sheehan <sheehan@wisdom.ucc.ie>]

hi,

I recently upgraded my system from  2.0 to 2.1. After the upgrade, ppp was
broken. Because I had been using an old kernel (2.0.36) I decided to
upgrade the kernel.  I upgraded to 2.2.5, and everything eweny ok. I
compiled parrallel port support and parallel printer as  modules.

Now when I try to print, I get the following message from the lpr command

Printer: lp@JeanGenie  'Lexmark'
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 351 active
 Unspooler: pid 352 active
 Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device',
attempt 1, sleeping 10 at 20:46:43
 Rank   Owner/ID                   Class Job  Files               Size
Time    
active  sheehan@JeanGenie+350         A  350 (stdin)            5193
20:46:43

/proc/devices reads :

Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  7 vcs
 10 misc
128 ptm
136 pts

Block devices:
  2 fd
  3 ide0
 22 ide1

lsmod reads :

ppp_deflate            38504   0  (autoclean)
bsd_comp                3456   0  (autoclean)
lp                      4768   0  (autoclean) (unused)
serial                 18112   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2024   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11304   1  (autoclean)
fat                    23904   1  (autoclean) [vfat]

Any help appreciated

Brian Sheehan