Ryan Harkin wrote: > You need to create the /dev/parportX devices under Mandrake. When I was > testing my scanner under Mandrake, I created /dev/parport0 manually using > mknod: > > # mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0 > > However, after playing with the printer config utilities and doing some other > > playing about Mandrake created /dev/parport1..9 without me noticing. > > They were softlinks to /dev/parport/[1..9] or /dev/parport/parport[1..9] or > something like that. If you can't figure out how to create the softlinks, > the mknod command should be OK.
Hi, I beleive Mandrake uses devfs (which those softlinks confirm), so you shouldn't have to make device nodes (and it might not work to do that anyway, since it's not a real filesystem).. you should add something like: alias /dev/parport0 ppdev to /etc/modules.conf so that devfsd knows what to load when parport0 is accessed. - Matthew
