Re: cannot add printers w/ CUPS

[Kurt Lieber <debian@kirpatrick.com>]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 07:15 pm, dman wrote:

> Are you using devfs?  (if you don't know, then you aren't) 

nope -- just plain ext2

> Do you 
> have the 'lp' kernel module loaded?  Does
>     echo  "hello world" >> /dev/lp0
> cause anything to happen?

I don't know if I have the lp kernel module loaded.  (If I do, it's compiled 
into the kernel -- lsmod doesn't show anything lp-related)

echo  "hello world" >> /dev/lp0

results in:

bash: /dev/lp0: No such device



--kurt