Re: USB

[cfelling@iae.nl]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:02:46PM +0200, robert hoedicke wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> I am trying to connect an Epson Stylus Photo 1290 printer to
> stable potato with kenel 2.2.18pre21. I have compiled the kernel
> with usb and usb-printer support. The only documentation on usb
> I could find came with the kernel sources. There is some talk of
> /dev/usb and /dev/ttyUSB, but neither exist on my system. MAKEDEV
> makes no mention of usb.
> 
> How do I create the appropriate devices?

You need something like:

   $ ls -l /dev/usb/lp0
   crw-rw----    1 root     lp       180,   0 Mar  8 01:02 /dev/usb/lp0 

so use something like (NOT TESTED, I'M A NITWIT, SO YOUR ON YOUR OWN):

   # mkdir /dev/usb
   # mknod /dev/usb/lp0 -m=o,g+rw c 180 0
   # chgr lp /dev/usb/lp0

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done

-- 
groetjes, carel