Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:39:50PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
>
> The only problem I've seen is that I cannot print anymore. After
> attempting a print job, lpq shows me this:
>
> Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured',
>
> Everything worked fine under the 2.0.36 kernel. /dev/lp1 does
> exist, and when I built the 2.2.10 kernel, I included parallel
> port support. Is there something else I need to do?
Yes. You need to change your device in your configuration to
/dev/lp0 - 2.2.x kernels renamed the lp devices to start from 0
instead of 1 (more logical to computers and geeks).
HTH,
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk
[life is like a box of biscuits - yum, crunchy and full of crumbs]
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