Anyway, I am trying to get printing going, which I have done before, and I can not seem to get basic output to go out the parallel port. I checked my kernel configuration, and I realized that I did not have parallel support compiled into the kernel. With make menuconfig under the kernel compile, I checked the parallel support (directly compiled in, not as a module) and I recompiled. Here is the output of uname after recompile
debian:/usr/src/linux# uname -a Linux debian 2.2.12 #6 Thu Sep 9 23:37:55 PDT 1999 i586 unknown I then tried the echo "hello world" redirected to the lp devices. Here is what I get. debian:/usr/src/linux# echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device debian:/usr/src/linux# echo "hello world" > /dev/lp1 bash: /dev/lp1: Operation not supported by device debian:/usr/src/linux# echo "hello world" > /dev/lp2 bash: /dev/lp2: Operation not supported by device My previous experience is it sends it to the printer. I have to give the printer a manual form feed by hitting the button on it and it kicks out a sheet with hello world. Do I have to change permissions on this device? Is there a way to check that I actually do have parallel support in the kernel? The uname seems to indicate the kernel recompile went without a glitch. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
