Getting a BJC2100SP to work

[Richard Rose]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 23:41, Peter Barker wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Richard Rose wrote:
> > I am having a bit of trouble getting a Canon BJC2100SP printer to work on
> > my RedHat 7.2 Box. Nothing I do seems to be able to get anything to
> > print. I have even tried sending raw text to /dev/lp0 but to no avail.
> > Can anyone tell me what I am missing.
>
> I assume you're running a stock system - so you have all the appropriate
> modules, and they are loaded?
>
> What happened when  you sent plain text to /dev/lp0? Did it give you an
> error, or just swallow it? A strace may be useful.
>

No errors, is seemed to just swallow it. Never used strace before.

Richard R :-)