no /dev/lp*

[Yoav Avitzour]

As for Victor's suggestion - as far as I know, makedev is NOT designed
to work with devfs. This is why there is the following warning in the
makedev module which will not let you install it if you're using devfs: 

lvu BUILD makedev

<snip>
   cat /proc/mounts | grep devfs | grep -qw /dev && {
      echo
      echo "/dev seems to be devfs, do not install this module!!"
      echo
      exit 1
<snip>


About the other reply - I do have both of these configured in my kernel,
as I wrote in my original post. Here is my entire PARPORT configuration
if anyone has any idea what might be wrong with it.

grep PARPORT /usr/src/linux/.config

CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set


Thanks,

Yoav


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 19:49, Steven Michalske wrote:
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> no chances are that the paraleport printer support in his kernel config is not 
> made.
> 
> CONFIG_PARPORT=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
>  in .config
> 
> there are 2 things that need to be configured
> 
> hardkrash
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 7:36 pm, Victor Pelt wrote:
> > 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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