On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:58:27AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address > > If I understand it correctly, the above line says that you do not have the > parallel port device. > You must have a parallel port device (/dev/lp?) in order to use a printer > that > is attached to the hardware parallel port. > What does > ls /dev/lp* > says ? > You can create the /dev/lp0 device using the MAKEDEV from the /dev directory, > but it seems strange to me that you don't have it from the beginning. > It might be that I am missing something.
lpN devices (in Linux <= 2.0 at least) are a bit strange; when compiled into the kernel, lp0 always lives at IO port 0x3bc, lp1 at 0x378, and lp2 at 0x278; they are not allocated from 0..2 in the order found. It is quite possible to have an lp1 without an lp0, and standard on most clones I would think. IIRC, the module does assign them as found from lp0 though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
