Re: Printer on parallel port on Ultra 1
F. Kappen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone tell me why the parallel port of my Ultra Sparc is unavailable?
>
> I installed a fresh debian testing (sarge) (Linux version
> 2.4.27-1-sparc64) on my headless machine. I chose the task "print
> server", but when I tried to print, I can not address the parallel port.
>
> During the boot process I receive the message:
> " Starting printing system service: cups "
> " lp: driver loaded but no devices found "
>
> Doing a
> "cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lp0"
> returns
> "/dev/lp0: no such device or address" ,
> although the device exists:
> " ls -la /dev/lp0"
> " crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2004-09-18 17:18 /dev/lp0"
>
> Do I need a new customized kernel?
>
> I would like to hear from people who have succeeded setting up a
> parallel printer port.
>
> Thank you
> Friedhelm
>
>
>
Perhaps this helps you:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/1999/10/msg00072.html
(found with google ;)
Paul
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