Re: Printer

[Eamon Roque <eamon-roque@eplus-online.de>]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:44:12AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> I have already discussed my woes under "Two Problems". I have now changed 
> from magicfilter to apsfilter. When I tried to print the test page, I 
> received the message: /dev/lp0 : no such device. The device /lp0 appears in 
> the /dev directory. It seems that the failure of the system to recognize my 
> printer may be the problem. How do I resolve this?
> It is not the printer connection, for the printer works properly with 
> Windows and worked with an older version of Debian.
> 
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What's "/etc/printcap" look like?! With cupsys, my printcap file was nullified as soon as I added cupsys-client. I'm running unstable, though... I would make sure that "/etc/printcap" had the printer in it, and then restart "lpd". Hope this helps...if not, sorry. :)

Cheers.

Eamon.