Re: er - how to print?
Martin Waller wrote:
> 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?
Uhmmmm! maybe?
I don't know anything about your particular printer, but hopefully it's supported.
Have you tried running magicfilterconfig?
John
>
>
> Help!
>
> Martin
>
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