[ale] No printer daemon present

[Paul Fisher]

Eric,

Getting better. I switched the /dev/lp0 to dev/lp1.
I am now up to 6 entries in spool area. It still won't print. It says
"waiting for Xerox  to become ready (offline?)"

I know the printer is fine, I ejected a page to make sure. I tried start, and
restart in lpc. I changed the support headers and then the send eof. I shut
down, rebooted and I get the same message from the terminal with lpc and
status but if I go back to the printtool and do a test ASCII  page, I get an
error message:

"Error printing test page; reason: lpr: connect"
"connection refused, jobs queued but cannot start daemon"

"Brubakken, Eric" wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I seem to remember something about a printer problems when upgrading for
> RH5.2 to RH60.  It seems that the default printer port for RH5.2 was lpt1
> and in RH6.0 that changed to lpt0.  I know you are not using Red Hat, but
> maybe something like this is your problem.
>
> Yes I know how frustrating something like this is.  I have horror stories
> about getting Linux to see my NIC card.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Fisher [mailto:fisherp at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:13 AM
> To: Linux Users Group
> Subject: [ale] No printer daemon present
>
>                     How do you make the daemon present?
>
>                     I have Mandrake 6.1 Macmillan distro. I cannot get my
> Xerox
>                     XJ8C printer to work. It has an emulation of the HP
> 550C so I
>                     use that. Once I got the printer to blink. No more.
>
>                     I checked setup, systems services to see if lpd if
> checked. It
>                     has an asterisk. I checked lpc status:
>
>                     Xerox
>                     queuing is enabled
>                     printing is enabled
>                     no entries
>                     no daemon present
>
>                     so I type "start Xerox" and try to print something in
> Maxwell,
>                     nothing. I go to printtool and try the test for ASCII
> text.  Nothing.
>
>                     I go back to lpc status and get the same list, no
> entries and no daemon present.
>
>                     I am still a newbie at 13 days and getting frustrated.
>
>                     Paul