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Setting Up a Printer on Lpt2
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| W. Watson 2004-11-25, 8:45 pm |
| I'm using RH 9.0 Enterprise and would like my printer to fire up on LPT2. I have a
non-printer device on LPT1. I have a dual boot with Win2000. Win can see the printer,
but Linux doesn't detect it. If I go to the printer mgr, and try to set up /dev/lp2
for a printer, I end up getting a choice of pin connections with the dialog that sets
up new printers.
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| W. Watson 2004-11-25, 8:45 pm |
| W. Watson wrote:
> I'm using RH 9.0 Enterprise and would like my printer to fire up on
> LPT2. I have a non-printer device on LPT1. I have a dual boot with
> Win2000. Win can see the printer, but Linux doesn't detect it. If I go
> to the printer mgr, and try to set up /dev/lp2 for a printer, I end up
> getting a choice of pin connections with the dialog that sets up new
> printers.
Hmmm, maybe this is getting detected. LPT2 on Win is lp1 on Linux, right? The printer
setup gave me /dev/lp1. However, when I try to do a test print, it balks. Prints fine
from Win 2000.
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| W. Watson 2004-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| W. Watson wrote:
> W. Watson wrote:
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> Hmmm, maybe this is getting detected. LPT2 on Win is lp1 on Linux,
> right? The printer setup gave me /dev/lp1. However, when I try to do a
> test print, it balks. Prints fine from Win 2000.
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Further details. The name of the printer is printer. When I execute:
lpr -Pprinter junk.txt
I get the message, "lpr unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable"
If I fire up the Printer Mgr icon, I get the message, "No printer found."
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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