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HP 1220C troubles cont.'d



"K. Matthew Victor" wrote:

> >
> >
> > Subject: Re: Any hope of help? or suggestions?
> > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:04:12 -0400
> > From: Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>
> > To: "debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >
> >         Subject: Any hope of help? or suggestions?
> >         Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:35:39AM +0000
> >
> > In reply to:K. Matthew Victor
> >
> > Quoting K. Matthew Victor(voltaire@inwave.com):
> > > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote:
> > >
> > > > "K. Matthew Victor" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Please give me a hand straightening this muddle up.
> > > > > I need to figure out how to get the printer daemon back up and working.
> > -----<snip>----
> > > > > (6): My old printer is no longer avail. to me (reassigned to a different
> > > > > facility), it was an HP LaserJet 1100.
> > > > > Thank you in advance. K. Matthew Victor
> > > >
> > > > PS. lpc start does not do the trick.
> > > > I'll root around the Running Linux book and snoop around in the man pages a
> > > > bit.
> > > > tia, K. Matthew Victor.
> > >
> > > I sure could use some suggestions here. Is it possible that I accidently
> > > removed the local print daemon? TIA, Matt
> > try
> > whereis lpd
> > lpd: /usr/sbin/lpd /usr/share/man/man8/lpd.8.gz
> >
> > if you get that then, no you didn't delete it
> >
> > is it running
> > ps aux |grep lpd
> > root       374  0.0  0.0  1352   32 ?        S    Apr29   0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
> >
> > is it running?  No then
> > /etc/init.d/lpd restart
> >
> > HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day
> >
> > --
> > Warning, keyboard not found. Press Enter to continue.
> > _______________________________________________________
> >
>
> Thank you for the help, thus far no joy!
> Results from the suggested commands:
> $  whereis lpd
> lpd: /usr/sbin/lpd
> su  ********
> # ps -aux |grep lpd
> Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus'-'
> root     218  0.0  0.1  1212   548  ?   S    May01  0:00  [lpd]
> matthew  3565  0.0  0.1   1112   444 pts/0   S   12:02   0:00  grep  lpd
>
> It looks to be running, however, I issued the restart command:
> storm:/home/matthew#  /etc/init.d/lpd restart
> Stopping printer spooler: lpd not running.
> Starting printer spooler: lpr.
> #man lpc  -t |lpr
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon
> # man lpc |lpr
> same return as above, also as normal user. This command sequence used to work, untill yesterday when this fun began.
> Triying to print from inside an app. (Netscape) does not result in output to the printer.
> Is it possible to use apt to reinstall the stuff that seems broken? TIA, Matt.

Okay, I"ve now gotten the beast to print garbled trash and consume large stacks of paper!!
Progress, sort of.
So, now to try to find a driver that will give at least a minor amount of utility.   Thanks, Matt



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