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
