Re: printing gone to hell?

[Barry Drake <bldrake worldnet att net>]

Michael,
I had to modify my /etc/conf.modules file with the line:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

After doing this printtool saw lp0: and I was happily printing away.
Hope this helps.
Barry
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Michael George wrote:

> Oh boy, I've really stepped in it this time.
>
> I just upgraded a client's machine from 5.2 to 6.1 and now it doesn't print.
> I've *never had a problem with printing failing on upgrade before!...
>
> Anyway, when I send a job to lp, it goes into the queue, but the system just
> sits there, acting like the printer needs to come back online (printer is up
> and ready to go).
> ----------------------
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
> 1st    george     604  /home/george/axhome/spool0064a.ps     75130 bytes
> ----------------------
> lp:
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is enabled
>         1 entry in spool area
>         waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> ----------------------
>
> I've tried power-cycling the printer, but that does nothing.
>
> I've upgraded lpr to 0.47-1 and printtool to 3.43-1 (if that's relevant), and
> I have "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" in my /etc/conf.modules and the
> modules lp, parport_pc, and parport all load.
>
> Is there something else simple I'm missing?  There's not much in the parport
> kernel documentation that seemed helpful.  If I can't get this figured out by
> Friday when they want to print invoices, they're not going to ba happy.  I
> might have to reinstall 5.2 (is a downgrade possible?) if nothing else...
>
> -Michael
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