Printing in Debian

[Lend273]

I have not been able to get my Lexmark 5770 to work, although it should function with the 5700 drivers which are supported in Linux.
I was reading up on the subject and I was told to use the command " modprobe parport "
and see what the resulting message was. It said "module not found". Is this my problem?
How do I load the parport module? I am running Libranet Debian.
Thanks for the help.
Len

[H. M. Murdock]

do you have the parport module installed? it may be because either the default kernel, or the one you recomiled doesn't have the parport module in it yet.

Murdock

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[Ig0r]

You should have compiled your kernel with parallel port support, and parallel port printer support. Then you need to "modprobe lp" and it should autoload parport and any other drivers it needs, then you'll be able to use your printer port with your print spooler.