Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

David Shepherd wrote:
> 
> I've just switched from Redhat 6.2 to Debian 2.2r2 and can't get my
> DeskJet695C working.
> Everything worked fine under RH using printtool to set it up.

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> When I try
> 
>         echo "this is a test" > /dev/lp0
> 
> I get
> 
>         su: /dev/lp0: No such device


Have you loaded the lp.o module?

The parport module, IIRC, is a core parallel port driver, which is
depended on by the plip and lp modules for the PLIP interface and
printers respectively.

What happens if you do an 'insmod lp' as root, and then try the echo
test above?

HTH
Matthew