On Feb 27, 2000 at 01:04, Philip S Tellis wrote:

> It doesn't matter whether you have the modules ready.  What matters is
> whether your kernel is actually looking for them.  If your kernel has not
> been compiled with printer support, then it will not look for the printer
> module when it needs it and simply return an error.

Is that error something like "%s: No such device"?

Uh. Stop press. I now get
bash: /dev/lp0: Device or resource busy

> Understand it this way:

[snip excellent explanation]

> I hope I have put this forward correctly and I hope it explains things
> correctly.

Yes, thank you!

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