According to Gerry Mascarenhas: While burning my CPU.
>
> I have recently installed kernel 2.20-pre8-ac1 and I cannot print now.When I
> run printtool I get a message that my print port /dev/lp1 not detected.
>
> I have tried
> cd /dev
> ../MAKEDEV lp1
>
> I get the message ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "lp1"
That then quite possably means its there, do ls -al /dev/lp* to check.
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> I have also tried as root " modprobe lp" and then "lsmod"and I get the
> following
>
> Module Size Used by
> parport_probe 2916 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> lp 4508 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> parport 6996 0 [autoclean)(parport_probe
>lp]
The module is loaded so whats up ?.
>
> besides a whole lot of other entries
>
> How do I get back my /dev/lp1
>
> Thanks,
> Gerry Mascarenhas
>
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Regards Richard.
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