Re: [SLE] printer trouble

From: Graham Smith (gqs_at_iinet.net.au)
Date: 11/06/03

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 04:08:53 +1100

    On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:20, Tom Allison wrote:
    > I have a HP deskjet 540C that is capable of running under CUPS as I've
    > run this before.
    >
    > But when I plugged it into the parallel port, there's nothing there.
    >
    > I've rebooted the hardware and there's nothing on the Yast Control
    > Center -- hardware listing... What's the deal?
    >
    > Where can I try to get this up and running?
    >
    > The irony is that I have a printer showing up on the client Yast control
    > center.
    >
    > On a prior build on this machine I was able to get it working just fine,
    > but I think I had it hooked up before I installed SuSE at all. So how
    > do I get this thing configured after the installation.
    >
    > This is bad. I have to have a printer running by tomorrow AM or my wife
    > will exterminate me.

    Check the following:
    1) Under the KDE "Info Centre" command have a look at "IO-Ports" you should
    see an I/O-Range allocated for Parport0. If not you have probably a problem
    in your BIOS.

    2) Check to see if there is an entry in /etc/modules.conf for the parallel
    port.

    3)The command ' /sbin/lsmod | grep parport' will give you a list of modules
    loaded for the parport and should be similiar to below.

    parport_pc 28200 1 (autoclean)
    parport 25352 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]

    4) To check you can send something to the parallel port, try (as root)
    echo "This is a test" > /dev/lp0
    This should print something to the printer.

    5) Using a browser enter http://localhost:631/
     and see if you can add the printer.

    6) Have a look at http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/cups.html

    Hope that helps you finding out what the problem is. 

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Regards,
Graham Smith
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