I myself have successfully used the HP Deskjet 660C printer in linux without any hitches. One thing you might try is typing dmesg and look at which lp* device it was installed on. The 2.2 kernels use a new parallel port driver which usually sets the printer to lp1 instead of lp0. If that is the case then edit/etc/printcap and change the line specifying the device you wish to use to lp1 instead of lp0. A good way of testing your printer for functionality is to cat plaintextfile >>/etc/lp*. If that works then you are pretty much set.
Go to the Scitech Dir which it is installed in, and then run sddsetup. It has an uninstall option. PS: This program sucks major, totally screwed up with my cirrus logic card and made me reboot in order to get it functioning properly in X. Avoid it like the black plaque.
Linux is not command line driven turd. Linux is just the kernel. The command line is a unix utility called bash, csh, tcsh, ash, etc. If someone wanted to they could write a program that made the kernel drive a total gui environment. Actually it's already possible. Instead of dropping to bash you can have linux go directly to X windows. Circumventing the cli altogether. It just happens that most linux users like the command line as a power tool, so no one has bothered making a totally encumbering GUI. In other words, Linux is what you make it. Nothing is set in stone, and it WILL live forever (or at least a reasonably long amount of time. Think SCO!):)
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I myself have successfully used the HP Deskjet 660C printer in linux without any hitches. One thing you might try is typing dmesg and look at which lp* device it was installed on. The 2.2 kernels use a new parallel port driver which usually sets the printer to lp1 instead of lp0. If that is the case then edit /etc/printcap and change the line specifying the device you wish to use to lp1 instead of lp0. A good way of testing your printer for functionality is to cat plaintextfile >> /etc/lp*. If that works then you are pretty much set.
Go to the Scitech Dir which it is installed in, and then run sddsetup. It has an uninstall option. PS: This program sucks major, totally screwed up with my cirrus logic card and made me reboot in order to get it functioning properly in X. Avoid it like the black plaque.
Linux is not command line driven turd. Linux is just the kernel. The command line is a unix utility called bash, csh, tcsh, ash, etc. If someone wanted to they could write a program that made the kernel drive a total gui environment. Actually it's already possible. Instead of dropping to bash you can have linux go directly to X windows. Circumventing the cli altogether. It just happens that most linux users like the command line as a power tool, so no one has bothered making a totally encumbering GUI. In other words, Linux is what you make it. Nothing is set in stone, and it WILL live forever (or at least a reasonably long amount of time. Think SCO!) :)