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Re: Parport/printer



On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:57:18AM -0600, Sophia Lewis wrote:

| It's sid running 2.4.13 with parport support the printer is recognized

Do you have the 'lp' module loaded?

| in dmesg, the /dev/lp nodes exist, but any attempt to use the printer

That doesn't mean anything on a system not using devfs.

| is met with /dev/lp0(or 1 or 2 or just plain lp) does not exist

I'd say that this means you don't have the module loaded.

Try 'modprobe lp' then 'echo "hello" > /dev/lp0'

HTH,
-D



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