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I have this exact same printer running on my Linus server and it works fine
as a lineprinter and as a WFW samba shared printer.

To set it up I used the printer setup under 'control-panel' in Xwindows

If you haven't got this or still cannot get it to work then email me.

One other thing to try is to 'cat' stuff out the /dev/lp? to see if you have
the correct port. you do not need the printer set up to directly send text
to it's port



Forge Villella (forgev@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:

: Hi All

: I have tried to setup my printer with no success. I am desperate now and also 
: at a loss to know what to do next.

: The printer I have is a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 520 

: I have tried the method suggested in the Linux User Guide: with no luck.
: I have tried using the cat PrinterProblems > /dev/lp1 and still no relief.
: I have tried the /dev/insmod lp command and that gives me a error like:

: I then used 

: /sbin/insmod lp

: it said that it could not open the directory /lib/modules/misc/ so I made 
: that 
: then I executed it again and then it said it could not see lp.o, so I made a 
: symbolic link like so:

: ln -s /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/lp.o /lib/modules/misc/lp.o 

: [root@localhost forge]# /sbin/insmod lp
: wake_up: wrong version or undefined
: current_set: wrong version or undefined
: interruptible_sleep_on: wrong version or undefined
: register_chrdev: wrong version or undefined
: Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.30) don't match your 
:                                                                linux-2.0.13


: Then I ran lpc status lp and got

: [root@localhost misc]# lpc status lp
: lp:
:         queuing is enabled
:         printing is enabled
:         1 entry in spool area
:         waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
: [root@localhost misc]# 


: The printer is on it jumped when I was setting it up during the installation
: so why can't I print?

: I posted the news group and it their help has still not worked

: I'm alos going to include the printcap file.  
: -----------------------------------------------------------------
: # /etc/printcap
: #
: # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
: # Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
: # Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
: #
: # This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.


: ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL cdj500 300x300 a4 {} DeskJet500 1 {}
: lp:\
:         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:         :mx#0:\
:         :sh:\
:         :lp=/dev/lp1:\
:         :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
: ------------------------------------------------------------------

: Maybe there is something wrong in the above file that you can help me with.

: Any help will be much appreciated:

: -- 
: Forge Villella,
: forgev@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au

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