Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

["Manuel A. McLure" <manuel@mclure.org>]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 01:53 pm, maxim wexler wrote:
> Then you're part of a dying breed evidently.
>
> I wasn't able to get cups to work so installed lprng.
>
> For more details on my problem go to the archives and
> search against my name and 'print' and 'cups'

I can't imagine how frustrated you are at this point.

If you wouldn't mind, I have some troubleshooting suggestions. It appears that 
perhaps you might have some problems with the actual printer interface 
(/dev/lp0), so let's make sure that works well.

FIrst, make sure nothing, even lprng, is using /dev/lp0 - shut down lprng and 
make sure there are no processes left around.

Then run the following command:

    /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt

And finally

   cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0

This should print out

Hello
World

followed by a form feed.

Unless this works, there's not much use trying to get lprng (or even CUPS) to 
work.

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