er - how to print?
Hello,
My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer.
Never having had a printer before, I've never had to set one up under linux.
I read the (long and waffly) printing howto and printing-usage howto , but
am having problems just getting started.
I have pirnting support in the kernel (lp appears under /proc/devices) and
proc/ioports gives:
<blurb>
0378-037f : lp
<blurb>
Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt > /dev/lp or echo hello > /dev/lp
does nothing - lpq just says:
waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)
<the jobs waiting>
WTF? The printers connected up Ok and the thing's on and like plugged in and
stuff - what do I have to do? What's wrong?
My /etc/printcap has a load of entries in it (not put there by me...(
Could they be wrong? I don'#t undetrstand the printcap manpage - it just
refers to me some bloddy bsd 4.2 (?) manual!
Thuis should be easy, no?
Help!
Martin
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