I just had that problem. Your cure may not be what cured me. In 7.0 I had OSS, my Zip100, scsi and LP setup so that my scanner ran on the scsi, my Zip100 ran on lp2 and my printer ran on lp1, That config didn't work in 7.1 because the new OSS used irq 7, which blocked my printer. I could "rclpd stop" and then 'rclpd start' (as root) and then when I checked with lpc using status I got the status readings you show. If I did restart in lpc it would tell me that it couldn't find a deamon and then would load lpd. A status check again would show the same messages you show. So, I ran OSS soundconf and disabled the soundblaster driver (it's 8 bit and not needed anyway). That cured my problem. I turned OSS back on Took the irq settings off the parport_pc line in /etc/modules.conf to read just option parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,none Now the scanner, zip100, and printer all work. JLK On Thursday 08 March 2001 20:46, you wrote:
LR> try lpc status <printer name>
Showes: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present
LR> did you rebuild the kernel and forgot to add support
Checked that, all printer stuff is enabled. However, I just checked the printer on my daughters V-tech and it does'nt work on that either. I have a feeling that the cable maybe faulty so I will try a new one and see what happens.
The printer daemon is broken. Start manually in a console window, then look at /var/log/messages to see what it's complaining about.