Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:

> I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
> detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
> existing, the entry looks like:
> 
> crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
> crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
> crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   2 May  5  1998
> lp2                      

The device entries have nothing to do with the actual devices.
Make sure you've loaded all the kernel modules you need for printing, try

modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe lp

LLaP
bero