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Ray Olszewski | 1 May 2004 14:57

Re: Can't Print

At 04:12 PM 5/1/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:

>heisspf <at> skyinet.net said:
> > On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection 
> and RH
> > 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
>
>Thanks Ray!
>
>In /etc/hosts I had to remove  <at> localdomain from localhost <at> localdomain and lpd
>started and placing the print jobs nicely into the print queue, however,
>nothing is being printed.
>
>On booting I get: Starting lp: Warning printer: cannot open '/dev/lp0' 'No
>such device or address'.
>
>dmesg gives: lp: driver loaded but no device found.
>
>lsmod shows: parport    2  (autoclean) [lp]
>
>I have not an onboard parport but a singel parallel PCI card with chipset
>NM9805CV. It worked perfectly when I tried it on my other PC with slackware
>9.1.
>
>What have I to do that the device /dev/lp0 is found. It is in /dev/:
>
>ls -l /dev/lp0
>crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 Apr 28  1995 /dev/lp0
>
>Regards

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Peter Garrett | 2 May 2004 05:05

Re: Can't Print

Peter;

Fo what it's worth - I use a parallel-port printer (LaserJet 6L) and 

$ lsmod | grep parport
parport_pc             25608   1 (autoclean)
parport                23336   1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]

So I think Ray is right and you are missing a module...

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:57, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 04:12 PM 5/1/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:
> 
> >heisspf <at> skyinet.net said:
> > > On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection 
> > and RH
> > > 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
> >
> >Thanks Ray!
> >
> >In /etc/hosts I had to remove  <at> localdomain from localhost <at> localdomain and lpd
> >started and placing the print jobs nicely into the print queue, however,
> >nothing is being printed.
> >
> >On booting I get: Starting lp: Warning printer: cannot open '/dev/lp0' 'No
> >such device or address'.
> >
> >dmesg gives: lp: driver loaded but no device found.
> >
> >lsmod shows: parport    2  (autoclean) [lp]

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