Re: printing problems
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:10:47PM -0700, David Smead wrote:
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| I'm apparently missing a driver.
|
| knuth:~# lpq
...
| Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
| -----------------
|
| knuth:~# ls -l /dev/lp0
| crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/lp0
This is meaningless. (well, all it means is you have an inode named
"lp0". You've got lots of inodes in /dev that you don't have hardware
for) If you use devfs this becomes meaningful (the file won't exist
unless the device and driver do).
| ---------------------------
|
| knuth:~# lsmod
| Module Size Used by
| parport_pc 7276 0 (unused)
| parport 6676 0 [parport_pc]
# modprobe lp
-D
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