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From: Raven Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: [techtalk] lp0
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am running redhat 6.1, dual booting with w98 (at least untill I get the
> DVD to work under Linux : ) ) and am having a problem getting the printer
> set up. It seems Linux does not know there are any ports installed ie. no
> /dev/lp0, no /devlp1 etc. Now the printer/port work fine on the other
> side, so I know that is okay. Also, lptest will print the approriate info
> to the screen.
> So my question, then, is how do I install a port?
Red Hat has some problems with their config scripts in v6.1. Make sure the
following lines are in /etc/modules.conf...
alias /dev/printers lp
alias /dev/lp* lp
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Louie
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