Re: printing problems
begin dman <dman@dman.ddts.net>
> 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)
meaningless? the major and minor numbers are correct. the kernel
certainly knows what major number 6 is. the parport driver (if present)
knows what minor number 0 is.
doesn't matter what you call the *file*. it's the major and minor
numbers which matter.
> If you use devfs this becomes meaningful (the file won't exist
> unless the device and driver do).
maybe. maybe not.
depends on how devfsd is configured, doesn't it?
p
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