Finding your printer

[Gregory Nowak]

I never printed with linux. However, the lpx devices are your parallel ports.
So, lpt1 is /dev/lp0 lpt2 is /dev/lp1 and so on. Hth.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:07:06PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi listers.
> I recently connected a printer to my linux box and wanted to see if I
> can get it to print.  I have looked at the printing-howto and the
> printing-usage howto, but I wonder if there's a way to have Linux
> check to see if the printer is there?  I looked in /dev and I see
> /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2, but I don't know what they are for.
> I'm running kernel 2.4.5, and when I compiled it I enabled parallel
> printer support as well as parallel port support.
> In the howto, it mentions /dev/lp, but there isn't one and before I
> start tinkering around, I was wondering if anyone has had experience
> with this.
> thanks.
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