Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

[Timothy Hospedales <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

I still get this when I switch to lp1 in printcap and restart lpd.

 Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt
2, sleeping 20 at 15:00:54

Any other ideas?
Thanks!


> Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers
> have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some
> BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno).
> 
> Marcus
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Date: 19-Jan-99
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