At 12:33 PM 4/11/99 -0700, David Erdman wrote:
>I have tried cat <file> > /dev/lp0 and get the no such device
>when i use printtool to setup and test the printer....lp0-3 all say not
>detected. when i setup anyways on lp0, it says lpr: connect: connection
refused
>jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>I have reset lpd.....???? I am clueless.
I think you didn't understand Michael's original reply to you. He wrote:
>> You probably didn't compile parallel port or line printer support in. You
>> will probably have to re-compile the kernel.
You can't fix this by looking for /dev/lp* devices after the fact. You need
to add parallel printer support to the kernel itself, either by recompiling
or as a module. Since I haven't moved to 2.2.x yet, I can't give you the
full details ... but when the system is booting, look for a message from the
kernel that it has detected a parallel port on some IO port. If you don't
see one there (you can also check in /proc/interrupts or /proc/ioports), it
confirms that you need to fix this problem at the kernel level.
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