Re: Adding a printer under 6.0 doesn't work

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 12:18 PM 10/11/99 -0700, Rick Forrester wrote:
>
>adm ipat com said:
>> Unfortunately, no.  The machine is a no-name Celron system I bought
>> from http:///www.tcu-inc.com.  It seems to work great (actually, it
>> seems to run Linux better than Windows...  which I cannot cry about).
>> The parallel ports are on the mb I believe and I think it's a
>> "gigabyte" mb if that helps.
>
>
>Alan, I missed part of this exchange.  What type of printer, and what
>does your system report when you open printtool & attempt to add a 
>printer?

It is an IBM (i.e., lexmark) 4070LJ.  Let me recap it this way:  On my old
486/33 5.2 machine, it worked great using the BJ-200 filter.  On this new
Celron/400 6.0 machine, nothing seems to happen when I print a test page
(ASCII, PS, or direct; maybe there is somewhere I am missing error
messages?).  I did the same configuration steps.  I believe it is /dev/lp1
on the 5.2 host and /dev/lp0 is detected on the 6.0 host.  The 6.0 machine
already has a 'parport_pc' line in /etc/conf.modules.

-Alan
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