lp0

[Collins]

On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 21:45:34 -0800 Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote:
> I finally had a requirement for my printer (canon bjc-210) used the 
> printer manager to set it up and all seem to go ok. When I send a
> print job to the printer it seems to do all the right things but I
> get no output on the printer.  I then ran "checkpc -f" and I get
> "can not open lp device ' device lp0'  no such device.  checking
> /dev and sure enough no such device. using mknod:
> 
> mknod c 6 0 lp0
> 
> rerun checkpc -f and I still get the same error.
> 
> I am using devfsd with ext3 fs. kernel 2.4.20 unpached what am I
> missing?

1.  Did you stop and start devfsd after making the changes?
2. Do you have the necessary support in the kernel (two different
selections to get parallel printer support)?

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 system