Aaron, this looks more like the reported lpr problem, and the same
behaviour
I had. The fix is on the errata website, under security -> lpr; and
consists
of adding the line:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
to /etc/conf.modules
best
rickf
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> On 04-Nov-99 John P. Verel wrote:
> The subject says it all. 6.0 detected my parallel port and made it
> available for my printer, just fine. 6.1 cannot find it. This is a
> dual
> boot system. LPT1/lp0 is assigned IRQ 7 by W98. lpd is running,
> according
> to top. lpc shows no print queues. Executing the comand lptest > /
> dev/lp0
> (or 1,2, etc) produces "No such device or directory". There is an lp0
>
> entry in /dev.
>
> I don't know where to begin to deal with this odd one.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> John
>
>
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> as the Subject. From what I can see from past posts you add 'alias
> parport_lowlevel parport_pc' to your /etc/conf.modules
> You'll need to unload and reload parport and lp modules. I assume a
> reboot will do that.
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