Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:34:51AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:
>> After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone.
>> Reason:
>> % ls -l /dev/lp*
>> ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory
>> There is no more device created by udev. I have turned off and on, but to no avail.
>> Yes, the printer is found (dmesg):
>> parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
>> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
>> parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 840C
>>
>> But there is nothing to send the data to.
>> I *did* my homework on Google, and found some help for CUPS. But hell freezes over before I use it !
>> I want it to run with lpr (is installed, of cause).
>> How do it get udev to recognize and create it ?
>
> have you purged hotplug?
Yep.
Uwe