Thus spake Nathan Weston: > I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I > recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have > parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) > parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) > parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-1000 > > However, printing through lpr doesn't work, and "cat file > /dev/lp0" gives me > bash: /dev/lp0: No such device > > Same thing with lp[12] and par[0..2]. My printer used to be /dev/lp0... now > it doesn't seem to exist at all. > Any suggestions? It sounds like you may not have printer support compiled into the kernel. Try modprobe lp and see what happens. HTH, Steve -- Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
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