HP690c for Suse 10.1

[smoonch]

hi guys,

I just installed Suse 10.1 yesterday on my pc and I seem to be having a problem with my printer. I have an old Hp 690c deskjet printer but its not printing at all. I've installed it (I'm not sure whether it installed) and it shows that there is a printer installed, but I can't get anything to come out.

Is is that the printer's model is incompatible with linux or there is something I am not doing right??

thanks.

Martin


NB: I'm new to linux

[kage]

I'm assuming it is connected via a parallel port? You might want to make sure the port is active in your bios.

Have you installed hplip (http://hplip.sourceforge.net/index.html) yet? There are instructions for installing hplip under Suse here (http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/novell.html).

Something else you could try (if hplip is already installed), is to make sure ppdev is loaded:

# lsmod |grep ppdevIf it is not, load it with:

# modprobe ppdev