Printer Problems

[Tony Cota]

I've run into a bit of a snag with my HP Deskjet 697C after installing Redhat
6.1, and wonder if anyone can offer advice?

I know the printer works fine with Linux. It ran well under Redhat 5.2, even if
it choked down more ink than it needed to. After upgrading to Redhat 6.1, I
used printtool to make /etc/printcap. But printtool doesn't find the printer at
/dev/lp0, lp1, or lp2. It should be at lp0. 

If you ls -l /dev | grep lp0, lp0 appears to be a regular old file:

-rw-rw-r--  1 root	root 62806 Feb 19 02:58 lp0

Shouldn't it be a special file, with group daemon?

As for how it functions, it doesn't. Any suggestions?

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Tony Cota			tcota at pacificrim.net
http://porthos.mybis.com
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