No /dev/lp0

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 07:23 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:36 AM, H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         I was trying to install Wep Ex 330+ DX , on finding that cups
>         is
>         taking serial port like /dev/ttyS0 , I found on Desktop having
>         Ubuntu,
>         has no /dev/lp0
>         
>         On ls /dev/l*
>         
>         it displays:
>         
>         log    loop0  loop1  loop2  loop3  loop4  loop5  loop6  loop7
>         
>         but no lp0
>         
>         What could be the reason, and what can be done?
>         
>         
> Are you sure that your machine has a working parallel port?  Modern
> linux
> systems fill out the /dev/ directory according to what they recognize
> during
> boot-up. 

I have my parallel port disabled in my bios. The OP may wish to check
that. Ric



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