no /dev/lp*

Victor Pelt peltco at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Feb 18 18:36:29 GMT 2003


a) learn devfs
b) install makedev and i believe the syntax would be something like
makedev /dev/parport0

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:12, Yoav Avitzour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Lunar about 2 weeks ago and I like it very much.
> So far I've had mainly one problem that bothers me - for some reason the
> device for my parallel port printer is not created. I don't have
> /dev/lp* or /dev/parport* or any other variation that I am familiar
> with. I have parport compiled in the kernel, and I also tried to compile
> it as a module, but still the device is not created. Since I'm not
> familiar with devfs, I have no idea how to continue from here.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yoav
> 
> 
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