Epson Stylus 860

[dmartin at ne.arris-i.com (Derek Martin)]

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

> Hey all,
> 	Does anyone have experience getting printers to work under Linux?  I
[SNIP]
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I don't think the stock kernel has support for printing built in.  Check
your boot messages to see if you see any messages about lpX, and if you
don't, run lsmod to see if the lp module is loaded.  Finally, you can
check /proc/devices to see if it mentions lp, if you have the proc
filesystem (you probably do).

If you don't see it there, you don't have lp support.  Make sure you
include it in your kernel config (under character devices) and if you have
it compiled as a module, make sure it gets loaded somehow at boot time.

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-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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