Re: Re. Total confusion
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
| In answer to some questions.
| My ISP connection is dialup.
Have you tried wvdial? Sometimes that works quite nicely with little
configuration necessary.
| When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get
| the message "installation failed". I think that I succeeded at one time
| afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer
| was shown.
AFAIK the 'lp' module was the old way the linux kernel handled the
parallel port.
You need the parport and parport_pc modules. (Just add them to
/etc/modules)
| Testing with echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 does not use /etc/printcap. However, I
| have used magicfilter and apsfilter with no success.
Do you get any results from echoing "hello"? What about after loading
the parport and parport_pc modules?
HTH,
-D
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