Guest HappyMutant Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 I'm trying to use an Epson Stylus c80 via the parallel port on my (sigh) eMachine 600. PrinterDrake doesn't detect it (it reccomends the "raw" driver), so I figured I could set up the printer manually. I selected the foomatic Gimp-print c80 driver as recommended. Now, however, I need to select a device URI - I only have a vague idea about how this works - and no /dev/lp# files even exist. I currently have the URI set to /dev/null - amazingly, this doesn't talk to the printer. How can I talk to the parallel port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HappyMutant Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Well, anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty stuck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 15, 2002 Report Share Posted November 15, 2002 If nothing else works, you can try to disable devfs, by appending " devfs=nomount" in the kernel parameters in grub's or lilo's config file (for lilo, you have to execute /sbin/lilo after changing the config file). Then your /dev/lp* files should exist. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HappyMutant Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Tried your suggestion - I received the following error running sbin/lilo: Unrecognizd token "devfs" ... in file /sbin/lilo.conf The computer appears to load devfs fine on startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 The devfs=nomount part should be in the append="..." line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HappyMutant Posted November 22, 2002 Report Share Posted November 22, 2002 That almost worked. :) Now the lp# files exist, they just don't seem to talk to anybody. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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