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Re: Where's /dev/lp0 gone in Etch?



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On 04/22/07 09:49, jjgnu@hotmail.com wrote:
> I just installed Etch on i386 (previously used Sarge). My printer,
> on the parallel port, has stopped working. I'm using LPRng with a
> custom print filter that sends lpd output to /dev/lp0. Unfortunately
> there is no longer any /dev/lp0, despite parport and parport_pc
> modules being loaded.
> 
> Any suggestions how I can get /dev/lp0 back (or failing that, some other
> way of sending lpd output to the parallel port)?

You need some udev rule.  Or maybe udev only created /dev/lp0 when
the printer is turned on (and not sleeping).

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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