On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:34:46PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Tuesday 01 January 2002 07:15 pm, dman wrote: | | > Are you using devfs? (if you don't know, then you aren't) | | nope -- just plain ext2
:-). devfs is a magic, non-existant, filesystem, similar to /proc. | > Do you | > have the 'lp' kernel module loaded? Does | > echo "hello world" >> /dev/lp0 | > cause anything to happen? | | I don't know if I have the lp kernel module loaded. (If I do, it's compiled | into the kernel -- lsmod doesn't show anything lp-related) | | echo "hello world" >> /dev/lp0 | | results in: | | bash: /dev/lp0: No such device Ok, you're missing printer support in the kernel. Can you "modprobe lp"? Did you compile the printer support? (CONFIG_PRINTER) Once you get the echo command to work, then CUPS should be no trouble. HTH, -D -- Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3