Good point. I was searching on "/dev/lp1 not found"
OTOH, we ordered 6.1 directly from Red Hat, I don't understand why software
vendors (Red Hat is not unique in this regard) don't send a mass email to
their clients saying "READ FOLLOWING -- VERY IMPORTANT RELEASE NOTES"
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Schmerold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: /dev/lpx
>
> Yes, it is an oversight. And if anybody recalls, almost the day after
> the 6.1 release, I myself found and posted a fix to this list, and it
> appeared on the Red Hat support website shortly after.
>
> I also figured out, after a day of digging, why people were reporting the
> fix to not work. And I posted it to this list, which is searchable through
> dejanews.
>
> It's funny. When I did a search on dejanews for the following "/dev/lp0
> not detected", four references to the solution turned up on the first page
> alone.
>
> There is a big difference between screwing up and ignoring the problem and
> screwing up and doing due dilligence to make sure that there is a working
> fix.
>
> --Matt
>
> --
> Matt Galgoci
> Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
> echo $title
>
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, John Schmerold wrote:
>
> > That may be, but a Dejanews search for the solution to this problem
resulted
> > in no solutions to the problem. Only an extensive Google search solved
the
> > problem. Whoever is responsible for this problem should be hanging their
> > head in shame.
> >
> > Now I get to fight pppd demand dialing. Had to do a rpm -e linuxconf
> > because it insists on using wvdial to establish pppd connections.
wvdial
> > does on support on-demand dialing - at least not according to the wvdial
> > FAQ.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "John Schmerold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 3:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: /dev/lpx
> >
> >
> > >
> > > This is in the 6.1 gotchas document on the support site, and has been
> > > discussed many many times on this list.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matt Galgoci
> > > Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
> > > echo $title
> > >
> > > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, John Schmerold wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just spent the better part of a day finding this solution. RH is
> > getting as
> > > > bad as Windoze.
> > > >
> > > > If you want to save yourself significant grief add:
> > > > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > > > to your /etc/conf.modules file
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Mike Lippiatt-Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Newsgroups: redhat.config,redhat.general
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:14 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: /dev/lpx
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Huub van Niekerk wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just installed RH 6.1 with Gnome and now my system tells me
'no
> > such
> > > > > > device' when I try to print to /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2.
When
> > I
> > > > > > try to configure them they're not detected. With Win95
everything is
> > > > > > fine. Can somebody help me out?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanx,
> > > > > > Huub
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello Huub,
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know if managed to fix the printer problem yet. I was
having
> > the
> > > > > same difficulties after installing 6.1
> > > > > All i had to do was add this line ( alias parport_lowlevel
> > parport_pc )
> > > > > to my /etc/conf.modules file. Hope this helps.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mike Lippiatt-Long
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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