Greetings all. Michelle, this may be more for you (to feed back to the internal Sun documenters). There is an outstanding bug in Solaris x86 where the printer port devices aren't always built properly. It took a while for me to find the right incantations in Google to get me to a link that discussed how to get around the bug. Since this bug is still active, I think it would be worth noting in the Advanced Administration Guide, in the section on setting up a locally-attached printer.
Specifically, it would be nice for the document to mention that certain errors in setting up a printer may indicate the need to perform the work-around. Something along the lines of: "If you get errors indicating that the printer port cannot be found, or is configured but failed to attach, check to ensure the /dev/lp_ device(s) exist. If not, run this command: /usr/sbin/update_drv -a -i 'lp' ecpp "Check again whether the /dev/lp_ device(s) exist before continuing to configure the printer." I know that would have saved me some 2 hours last night trying to find exactly what was failing and why, and considering this bug was first opened in January, I can imagine a lot of people have needlessly wasted time on the problem. It was, to be honest, the first time I've ever attached a printer locally to an x86 Solaris system, but I can imagine there are a lot more people in this situation, what with all the people new to Solaris coming on board. Once the bug is fixed, then the comment could presumably be removed. Thanks. :-) Rainer ...still running from unexpected chore to unexpected chore...sigh This message posted from opensolaris.org
