no /dev/lp*

[Shern, Benjamin J]

Does dmesg show that parport was probed?  You might need to look at
parport=auto (I believe is the syntax) as a kernel parameter.
Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoav Avitzour [mailto:avitzour at princeton.edu] 
> Sent: February 19, 2003 8:04 AM
> To: Lunar Linux Mailing "List! (all are welcome)
> Subject: Re: no /dev/lp*
> 
> 
> 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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