Re: Can't use my pararell port /dev/lp1 -can't print 2.2.5

Alexandre Hautequest (hquest@linuxbr.com.br)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:50:16 -0300


narancs1@mail.externet.hu wrote:

> So I cannot print 2.2.5
> With 2.0.36 everything works.
>
> trying to access parport:
> bash: /dev/lp1: Operation not supported by device
> it make modules to load, but parport_pc doesn't load.

I have the same trouble about 2 months ago. Ths solution: "The parports numbers
had been changed. What was called lp1 now is called lp0". Change it in printcap,
and all will work fine.

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