I'm coming to this thread late, so I apologize if I'm reviewing familiar ground.
It sounds like you need to find your printer before continuing to muck
around with /dev entries. So ...
1. Look in /proc/ioports ("more /proc/ioports") for a promising entry. On my
system, the parallel ports are labeled "lp", but you should look for
anything plausible. Ports 378-37F should be associated with /dev/lp0, ports
278-27F with /dev/lp1 .
2. Look in /proc/interrupts (as above) and see what, if anything, is using
IRQ 5 (probably /dev/lp1) or IRQ 7 (probably /dev/lp0).
At 11:22 PM 2/11/99 +0000, A W Young wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>
>>If you log in a root, the command
>>
>>echo TEST > /dev/lp1
>>
>>should cause the printer to print the word 'TEST', at least.
>
>This just reports:
>
> "Operation not supported by device"
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