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Paul O'Malley wrote:

> Hi Winton,
>
> Sorry for not snipping the mail I want to keep all the details together.
> does the following exist, run in a terminal:
>
> ls -l /dev/lp0
>
> That is the first step. If it does then I will have a look for other
> items that are faulty
>
> If not then you need to
> cd /dev
> sudo MAKEDEV lp0
>
>
> However if it does not exist then the other situation is that the cable
> for LP0 and possible motherboard jumper is not in place.
> Please let me know how you get on.
> Have you tried chatrooms? try the program X-Chat
>  
>
Hi Paul, output from terminal is as follows,

squareyes at here:~$ ls -l dev/lp0
ls: dev/lp0: No such file or directory
squareyes at here:~$ cd /dev/
squareyes at here:/dev$ sudo MAKEDEV lp0
/sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "lp0"

Had a look at man MAKEDEV didn't enlighten me at all.
So it could be a hardware problem, which I find hard to understand,
as I used to have Win98 on the same drive , and the Epson LQ 500
worked fine from there.


> As for writing a device driver too hard for a newbie, but if you really
> want to there are books and online faqs to beat the band. Be warned it
> is a non trivial task to learn enough to do that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
>  
>
A big smile comes to face, :-)   am in my 60's and just the thought of 
my writing
this myself would be enough to get me committed :-)   Brain no longer 
remembers
things like it used to, don't think I have enough time left (am 
currently working on 25 years) :-)
I was thinking of taking up a collection and paying someone to do the job.
As I mentioned, problem has been the same with more than one computer,
have tried along with a couple of Deb guru's who have had no success 
either.
Thanks again for the help, biggest problem I have is I am so far away 
from any other Linux user.
Take Care
Winton