On Mon, 2005-08-08 13:03:10 +0200, F. Kappen <kappen@tfh-berlin.de> wrote: > "F. Kappen" wrote: > > Does this mean, that I can not use CUPS for my intended purpose? Or is > > there a workaround for this problem? > > Thanks to Dieter Jurzitza. > > I followed his advice: > > mv /dev/lp0 /dev/lp0_org > ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/lp0 > > and it works. Great! *cough* You don't seriously use this "solution", do you? Who will correctly set-up the serial port? Serial settings are by principle volatile. You cannot rely on them being the same after an open/close cycle... CUPS actually *can* use serial ports and fully allows to configure those. I've done that for a Point of Sale printer for some time. (I wrote a gs driver and a PPD for it to allow Postscript printout on this dumb thingie...) A little call to Google ("cups serial printer") brought up: http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00124.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00125.html which you may find interesting to read. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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