Le Mardi 11 Juin 2002 23:36, Darren Hammond a �crit :
> Hi
>
> I saw the post regarding the p9100.lrp package a while back and thought
> hmmm, I could do something with that. I have a couple of Bering
> installations and I've found it makes a great mini distro as well as a
> firewall.
>
> The trouble is I'm having problems getting anything to print directly from
> the Bering box.
>
> Forget p9100.lrp, print servers, firewalls and all that for a minute.
>
> If I install parport.o, parport_pc.o & lp.o as modules in the normal way, I
> get the following on boot.
>
> parport - Using /lib/modules/parport.o
> parport_pc - Using /lib/modules/parport_pc.o
> parport0: PC-Style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
> lp - Using /lib/modules/lp.o
> lpt0: using parport0 (polling)
>
> Looks good.
>
> However, if I try echo "test" >/dev/lp0, I get nothing from the printer.
> Should this work? I want to check that I've got the basic system working
> before starting to play with packages such as lpd.lrp & p9100.lrp.

/dev/lp0 is not created by default by Bering

in /var/lib/lrpkg edit root.dev.mk and add in the file

mknod lp0 c 6 0 >null 2>&1  
mknod lp1 c 6 1 >null 2>&1  

this create devices for parrallel printer on parport0 and partport1

then backup initrd.lrp

That should fix your pb

Jacques

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