Epson Stylus 860

[Derek Martin]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Frank J. Ramsay wrote:

> /var/logs/messsages says "marsdome lpd: lpd loaded successfully" and the
> date/time stamp is correct for the last boot.

Meaningless.  All that tells you is the lpd daemon started.  It doesn't
care wether or not you have an lp port.  If you have a printer defined to
use it but it isn't there, it just won't print.  I think you said this was
a redhat system.  You can look at the output to the `dmesg' command, or if
your system's been up for a while you'll probably want to look at
/var/log/dmesg on a redhat system.


Nothing at all, or nothing about lp?  If the latter, then you definitely
don't have support in your kernel.  So don't bother with the stuff
above...

> I tried just doing an insmod for the paraport_pc.o, paraport_probe.o, and lp.o
> in /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc but that didn't seem to help...

I would have thought that would work, or specifically 

  insmod lp

but if that didn't do it, I'd suggest recompiling your kernel.  Did you
get error messages when you tried it?  If you did an lsmod after, did it
show up?  Do you see any lp mentioned in /proc/devices after trying that?

If you don't see anything, try compiling the support directly into the
kernel.

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"    "Who watches the watchmen?" 
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 

Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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