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Re: printcap problems, please help



Terry Hancock <hancock@earthlink.net> writes:

[...]
> ALSO, I just noticed that with the Linux 2.2 kernel,
> your first parallel port (~LPT1 in dosspeak) is
> /dev/lp0. However you mentioned Slink, which is based
> on the 2.0 kernel.  With that one, I had the first
> printer port as /dev/lp1 in my printcap (I had to
> fix this when I upgraded the kernel).

I won't be surprised if this is the error. I had similar sympthoms
with my printer when I upgrsded my kernel and when I changed dev it
worked.

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