Re: printing broken in potato install

[mike polniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

> 
> At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the
> printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when
> I try to cat testfile > /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains
> that no such devices exist.

	You need the lp module. Do lsmod to see if its loaded. If not try
modprobe. I am assuming the standard lpr program is installed. If so you
can setup /etc/printcap with a pkg like printtool.
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