Re: Printproblem with CUPS and LaserJet 1100

[DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>]

Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Gast CPU20 wrote:
>
> > Hey Boys and Girls!
> >
> > I want to achieve that my LaserJet 1100 provides printing for my windows-network. Unter Suse I did this with Samba and some printing-installing with Yast. Under Debian I heard CUPS is the right utility. So i installed Cups and tried to configure it with my printer. The problem is, that Cups only gives me the possibility to connect the printer to a serial port - but my printer is on the paralell port.
> The only time I've seen this, the (self-built: my bad) kernel was not
> set up properly to use the parallel port for printing.  Take a look at
> your kernel configuration, especially if you built your own.  There are
> *3* different settings you need to make to enable this: 
>
> PARPORT
> PARPORT_PC
> PRINTER
>
> Do the appropriate grep on .config.
>
> And do /dev/lp0 and/or /dev/lp1 exist at all?


I also see this problem with the CUPS html interface and I'm running 
kernel-image-2.4.5-686 from woody/testing. I finally got my parport to 
show up after fiddling around with lpadmin a little (I also installed 
cupsomatic) and then cupsd died and I never could get the parport to 
show up again.
Now the only way I can configure my printer is with lpadmin and I keep 
getting stair-stepping ascii text output... I've been meaning to try 
some other things but haven't gotten around to it.
I've noticed, however, that this kernel image has ecn enabled by default 
(took a while before I figured out why I couldn't reach half the sites I 
went to and my pop mail server) so I suppose it's possible that the 
parport is also not working in it :-)