SOLVED: Re: CUPS 1.2.1 error - printer not connected

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> [ ... ]
> Were the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc loaded during boot?
> Did udev create /dev/lp0?
>
> (My Sid box currently does not create /dev/lp0 unless I modprobe lp.)
>   
Well-guessed! /dev/lp0 did not exist. I created it with

   # modprobe lp

and restarted CUPS with

   # /etc/init.d/cupsys stop
   # /etc/init.d/cupsys start

The printer now works. This seems to have been reported as udev bug 
#351668: Parallel port /dev/lp0 is not created on boot.

Thanks Florian.

Chris.