From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FAzQv-00000k-1S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:01:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1K10g4j011054; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:00:42 GMT Received: from leng.mclure.org (015.191-78-65.ftth.swbr.surewest.net [65.78.191.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1K0tJNE023858 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:55:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leng.mclure.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C44D24176 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from leng.mclure.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (leng.mclure.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23274-13 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulthar.internal.mclure.org (ulthar.internal.mclure.org [10.128.1.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by leng.mclure.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38B0D24164 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:55:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Manuel A. McLure" Organization: mclure.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng? Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:54:42 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060219215333.1601.qmail@web31708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200602191429.23397.manuel@mclure.org> <200602201414.59118.elinar@ihug.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <200602201414.59118.elinar@ihug.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602191654.45870.manuel@mclure.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mclure.org X-Archives-Salt: 1a1e2080-d23f-42e3-9bcb-5de357ec870d X-Archives-Hash: 6a580e8dba24fbc42ea0598ea835674e On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:14 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > > /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt > > I am having similar difficulty getting my hp720c working. After trying the > test you suggested, I still got just nothing on the printer. I have both > parport, parport_pc, and lp modules loaded, which gives me the lp0 device. > any suggestions? > > # ll lp0 > crwxrwxrw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Feb 20 14:08 lp0 > > PS the printer does work in knoppix. Does this seem like probably a kernel > issue? Possibly - try running "dmesg" after the "cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0" and see if anything shows in the kernel logs. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list