486 and printing

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@wasters.org>]

I've got a little 486 box here doing nothing but gather uptime,
and I'd like to set it up as a printer server.

Unfortunately, it doesn't recognise /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 or /dev/lp2
as existing:

[root@lewis ~] # cat > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: No such device

Obviously, lprng doesn't work too well :) It's a new build of
2.2.12, with the following stuff:

[root@lewis /usr/src/linux] # grep -e "\(PARPORT\|PRINTER\)" .config
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y

What could be wrong? Might the parallel port be broken?

Thanks,
-- 
alisdair mcdiarmid                           alisdair@wasters.org
[funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]