Problem with printer on parallel port.

Mark Nixon manixdk at tiscali.dk
Sat Mar 26 15:42:22 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 10:33 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I upgraded to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp and now my printer doesn't work.
> 
> [root at saturn]# cat /home/steveo/mozilla.ps > /dev/lp0
> bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address
> 
> [root at saturn]# ls -l /dev/lp0
> crw-rw----  1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 20 14:45 /dev/lp0
> 
> Does anyone know what I need to do to make it work?
> 
> Do I need to load a driver or add something to modprobe.conf?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have  .0.
> happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
> Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
> individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
> steveo at syslang.net
> 

This happened to me on another machine after a core upgrade. Have you
tried disconnecting the printer, rebooting, uninstalling when Kuzu asks,
then shutting down, reconnecting the printer and re-installing it with
Kuzu. Worked for me. YMMV.

Mark




More information about the fedora-list mailing list