Debian: Help with Printer

[crazyox2]

Hello everyone!

I have an HP Deskjet 722c winprinter. I've had it working very well in Linux in the past (using Debian and Mandrake). But I just installed Debian after using Mandrake 8.0 for the past while, and I cannot for the life of me get my printer to work!

I have apt-get installed pnm2ppa, and the dependencies that come along with that. I have installed the cupsys printing system. I have tried using magicfilterconfig. But I can't get my printer to work!

I am using the following sources.list sites:
deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

I have a newly configured/installed 2.4.5 kernel. What should I do to get my printer working?!?!?! Should I use printtool, magicfilter, cups, or what?!??!

Could someone that uses this printer and Debian help a fellow Debian user out? :)

Pretty please? Thanks!

(Just tell me what other information you need and I'll be very happy to supply it)

[crazyox2]

Ah ha! I found out some more information. I'm sure someone can help me more easily now. When I go into kups (kde cups gui configurator), it says: "No port detected on this computer!"

And when I do a dmesg | more, I don't see my printer listed like it used to be. It just says this:

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)] parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured lp0: using parport0 (polling).

I remember when my kernel bootup message used to say (polling), it would always list my printer after it (HP DESKJET 720C). Hmmmm......

Maybe I have my kernel 2.4.5 .config messed up. Here are the relevant parts of my /usr/src/linux/.config file:
justin@AMD700:~$ grep PAR /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set

justin@AMD700:~$ grep PRINTER /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
justin@AMD700:~$

justin@AMD700:~$ grep PNP /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_PNP=y

Any other things I am missing?!