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parallel printer in Etch Sparc
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| Hi,
I want to add a printerqueue to my (Sparc) Etch server and after
connecting the printer (HP LJ5L) I can't send anything to either
/dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1. According to the online docs on Debian, I should
restart the server after connecting the printer. However, now I have no
/dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1 at all, only /dev/printer. Which doesn't do
anything either. Restarting the server with or without the printer
doesn't bring /dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1 back. Can someone please help me out?
Thanks,
Huub
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| Lew Pitcher 2007-06-07, 7:13 am |
| On Jun 7, 4:32 am, Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I want to add a printerqueue to my (Sparc) Etch server and after
> connecting the printer (HP LJ5L) I can't send anything to either
> /dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1.
For what it's worth, you should be looking for /dev/lp0 (not /dev/
lpt0) or /dev/lp1 (not /dev/lpt1).
Perhaps you are looking for the wrong thing, and thus not finding it?
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> For what it's worth, you should be looking for /dev/lp0 (not /dev/
> lpt0) or /dev/lp1 (not /dev/lpt1).
> Perhaps you are looking for the wrong thing, and thus not finding it?
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Thanks for your answer. No, I started with looking for /dev/lp0 and
/dev/lp1. To my surprise these didn't exist, instead I found /dev/lpt0
and /dev/lpt1 which don't exists anymore by now...
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| Anton Ertl 2007-06-07, 1:13 pm |
| Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I want to add a printerqueue to my (Sparc) Etch server and after
>connecting the printer (HP LJ5L) I can't send anything to either
>/dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1. According to the online docs on Debian, I should
>restart the server after connecting the printer. However, now I have no
>/dev/lpt0 or /dev/lpt1 at all, only /dev/printer.
In my experience the absence of a device is often caused by the
absence of the appropriate module. I have (on a PC) loaded parport,
parport_pc, and lp, and I get /dev/lp0. So better check what modules
are loaded (on the Sun you might need something other than parport_pc,
though).
- anton
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M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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