Re: Problem with Canon BJC-1010 printer

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

Ok, the problem looks like you have no physical port connected to the
kernel.  Check the file /etc/conf.modules and see to it that you have
the line:

  alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

in it.  If it wasn't in there, put it in.  Then run printtool again. 
Delete your existing printer and make a new local printer.  This time it
should report up that you have a parallel port, probably /dev/lp0.  If
it doesn't, then we have other work to do.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:44:58PM -0500, Guenther Jakob wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like when you initially set up this printer via printtool, you
> > selected "network printer" instead of "local printer".
> > 
> This would have been a trivial solution to my problem. Unfortunately, it is not
> the case. When I try to send an ASCII text file directly to the printer port
> within "printtool" I get the message "/dev/lp1: no such device", even though
> this file exists. The same message comes up  with the other devices lp0 and lp2
> as well...
> 
> Guenther

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
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