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Drewgrange
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 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 2:15 am Post subject: /dev/lp0 not found |
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I've gotten through the printing guide up until it comes time to type in cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
I get the message that it doesn't exist. I have parport and lp both loaded. lsmod brings back
parport [lp]
lp (unused)
Before I had gotten parport (unused), but I changed the parallel port in my BIOS from Esomething+Esomething (stupid memory) to default, which got me parport [ld]
Anything else I can try? Any other info that might be helpful? |
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Ian
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:30 am Post subject: |
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i have this problem too. i thought i didn't have the right kernel options compiled, not so sure now. i can't test, as i'm halfway through compiling open office, not about to stop :p.
if someone has a solution, there will be not one, but two happy people!  |
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Drewgrange
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| A small addition, I switched back to the Esoemthing+Esomething and tried each Esomething spereately and each time got the same result, so forget about that part of my post. I also tried chaning the Plug and Play OS option in the bios from no to yes and that also didn't change anything. |
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Drewgrange
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Ian, hopefully this works for you as well. I didn't think I needed parport_pc, but apparently I did. Try enabling that, then modprobing parport_pc. After that I was able to see lp0 |
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Ian
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| what exactly is "parport_pc"? i've enabled a bunch of stuff dealing with the parallel port, but nothing's working :p. |
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Drewgrange
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| When you're selecting modules in the kernel, its the one that says enable PC support, you should see it when you select the parport module |
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Drewgrange
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Also, I'm not 100% positive, but I think this is one of the things that made mine not work (I changed a few things at once and then it worked,, so I'll never know ), in /etc/modules.autoload, but them in this order: parport, parport_pc, lp
And search the forums for parport, theres a thread where someone explains to add a line alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc to a file. I can't remember the file so just search around and you should be able to find it |
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