Re: spurious printer ?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup an hp 5mp printer at home, off the parallel port. I
> am running kernel 2.4.2, with parport enabled, as well as the IEEE 1284
> option. And the printer seems to be correctly recognized at bootup
> (parport0).
>
> I am using lprng for printing, and typing 'lpr somefile' doesn't do
> anything... Checking with lpq, I have
> 'Cannot open /dev/lp0, no such device'...
> I have set the permission on lp0 to 622 (I have only one device on the
> parallel port).
>
> I am still looking for a config problem on my part. However, I tailed
> /var/log/messages, and there is msg 'spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7'.
>
> Do you have any suggestion?
>
Did you try echo test > /dev/lp0 ? Did you choose kernel option
for parallel port option in *character_devices* - it is some screens down
from the top. This will leave you without device lp0.
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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