Re: printing broken in potato install

[Bob Underwood <kentuckybob@worldnet.att.net>]

On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules
during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp.  

bob

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote:
> 
> I have just installed potato on a machine which happily
> ran slink before.  During the install it refused to
> load the lp module---
> >Error installing lp module
> >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy
> >Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o failed
> >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod lp failed
> ---so I put in parport which someone mentioned some time ago.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If someone can tell me where in the fine manual to look
> for help, I should be most grateful.
> 
> TIA,
> Doug.
> 

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