Re: spurious printer ?
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
Dashed that off to quickly. Not choosing the parallel port option
in the character device section will leave you without device lp0.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
Reply to: