No /dev/lp0

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Not likely to be the problem because he reports that the printer works in
Windows.
However, I have to admit I'm stumped.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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