Re: /dev/lp0: No such device

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: /dev/lp0: No such device
	Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:51:47PM -0500

In reply to:Dave Sherohman

Quoting Dave Sherohman(esper@sherohman.org):
> I've built myself a 2.4.5 kernel with parport support, but it appears
> to be broken, as any attempt to print (whether to /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2,
> par0, par1, or par2) results in the error "No such device".
> /var/log/syslog records the message "modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate
> module char-major-6" even though the support is built-in, not a
> module:
> 
> CONFIG_PARPORT=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
> 
> The port is detected at startup:
> 
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
> parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
> 
> and appears in /proc/ioports (0378-037a : parport0), but does not
> appear in /proc/interrupts.
> 
> I dug around a bit on google and found a mailing list message listing
> near identical symptoms under 2.4.0-test4, but it was supposedly
> fixed in 2.4.0-test5.

Humm.  I have not had any problem with parport in the 2.4.x series at
all.  Let's see.  I have this in my lilo conf
append = "apm=on lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none"
and the following in my kernel .config

# Parallel port support
#
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y

# Character devices
#
CONFIG_PRINTER=y

If you have the same then I really don't know what it could be.

Hope this helps some.
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