Re: Adding a printer under 6.0 doesn't work

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 10:33 AM 10/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I plugged my ancient inkjet into my new 6.0 machine and it refused to print
>a test page.  I tried several combinations because it's not listed and
>nothing worked.  After a while it would stop recognizing /dev/lp0.  I
>checked /etc/conf.modules and it had a line for the parallel port.  The
>printer worked fine as a BJ-200 under RH5.2.  If anyone knows what I can do

Oh, one other oddity.  Although the printer would be the only parallel
device on either machine, I believe it is installed to /dev/lp1 on the 5.2
machine where it works.  This seems like it would be LPT2 in DOS...  Only
/dev/lp0 is detected by the 6.0 printtool.

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