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Subject: Re: lp0 -- No such device in 6.1 From: Rick Forrester <rickf@crow.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:50:45 -0800 akonstam@trinity.edu said: > 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. 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 You'll need to unload and reload parport and lp modules. I assume a reboot will do that. ===