Please CC me, I am not subscribed. I am using lenny on an amd64 with the standard kernel.
The short question is in the subject. The long version follows. When trying to use my printer, I installed cups and foomatic, because the package descriptions suggested that I needed to. However, foomatic did not know the printer model and thus configuration of cups failed. Then I just tried cp bla.ps /dev/lp0 because I felt that it "should" work. It did. So I happily uninstalled cups, foomatic and all the bloat that they pull in as dependencies. The problem: Next time I tried (after a number of reboots), /dev/lp0 was gone. The standard kernel (which I use) uses udev and if I understand the latter correctly, it should always give me (in /dev) the devices which are physically present. As my parallel port is always present and there is no way to detect whether anything is conected to the far end, why is there no /dev/lp0 by default? Or at least when there is something at the far end? How do I get /dev/lp0 back? Best regards, Caeles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
