Re: printing problems

[David Smead <smead@amplepower.com>]

Thanks for the help.

knuth:~# modprobe lp
modprobe: Can't locate module lp

I haven't been able to find what package this is in.

-- 
Sincerely,

David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, dman wrote:

> 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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