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Re: printing problems



On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:10:47PM -0700, David Smead wrote:
| 
| 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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