Re: USB
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
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