Re: [LI] help in printer setup

["Aditya Deshpande" <adityad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| Hello everyone,
| I need help with my printer setup :
|
| I have an HP 695cci inkjet printer attached to the machine, it is on LPT1,
| and it is working fine on the windows operating system, but i am having
| trouble configuring it on linux, the parallel port is not detected, i have
| tried the following:
|     Tried adding a printer in the printtool utility(Gnome -system/control
| panel), when i add a printer, it gives the following message, printer not
| detected  on  /dev/lp0 , dev/lp1 , dev/lp2, and it lets me continue, when
i
| add that printer, and try giving the test ascii page to port command, it
| says "error writing to port dev/lp0 , device does not exist, and the same
| error occurs even if i change the port to lp1 or lp2.
|
| I Went to the linux site, and got the information to try the modprobe
| parport command, and then reload printtool and try again, did that too,
but
| it didnt work. Please suggest a solution for the above problem.
|
| please help me with the above problem
|
| regards,
| Pankuj Chachra
|

All credits to Sanjay Dutt for this solution

>Hi Jeffrey,

>I think the kernel has the printer stuff as a module. My /etc/conf.modules
>file has the first line reading "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc"
>(without the quotes).

>I too had done a fresh install of RH6.1 and found that the lp devices were
>not available whereas this problem did not exist in RH6.0. So I
>re-installed RH6.0, saved the conf.modules file, re-installed RH6.1 and
>found this line missing. I added this line, rebooted and the printer device
>was recognized in RH6.1, and it shows up in 'printtool'. Haven't been able
>to print anything as the printer is on the blink.

>Hope this helps.

>Sanjay Dutt



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