mage

Hello,
I have a problem with installing printer on my Debian.I haven't got my printer port in /dev (/dev/lp0).How can I fix it?
Can somebody help me?

melee

Hi,

If you have installed from a distro, something has got fouled up for such a basic device to be missing. Consider a reinstallation.

If that isn't an option

First check for the script /dev/MAKEDEV . If that exists use it to make your device as it will sort out major and minor nos for you.

Otherwise you should be able to use from terminal as root:-
"mknod -m 666 /dev/lp0 c 6 0" to create /dev/lp0

for /dev/lp1 replace both 0's in above with 1's

regards

Melee

hafnium

you could use udev if you have kernel 2.6 and then it would be dynamically loaded at bootup. i'm using it on my gentoo box and it seems to work pretty good.

mage

thanks,it helped!