Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?
--- David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> Quoting Christopher R. Barry (christopher_r_barry@yahoo.com):
>
> > > Are you sure your usb-printer
> > > ist recognized by your system?
> > > Try "cat <textfile> >/dev/lp0. Does it work?
> >
> > No, the command just hangs.
>
> What did you actually type?
> I assume you *didn't* try /dev/lp0.
I created a file "hello.text" containing just "hello" and I typed:
# cat hello.text >/dev/usb/lp0
and also
# cat hello.text >/dev/lp0
it just hangs.
> But they are correct in that you should forget about printcap,
> lpr etc. until you can cat a file to the device.
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