Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:45:25 -0500 From: "Ben Yiu" <byiu@shaw.wave.ca> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Printing Issues Message-ID: <001401be758f$9d6ea5c0$0200a8c0@windows.housemixes.com>
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Hi, I am having problems creating a device for my printer. I followed the directions in the FreeBSD handbook and it tells you to create a device using the ./MAKEDEV lpt0 command line. However from reading the FreeBSD release notes for 3.1, they had implemented the new nlptN in the kernel. So after looking in my kernel sure enough I found that I did have a nlptN entry in my kernel. Also after issuing the command "dmesg | grep nlpt" I found that it did recognize the port. However when i issued the command "dmesg | grep lpt" nothing was found. From the above I concluded. 1. lptN will be replaced by nlptN. 2. my printer port was found at nlptN 3. I should try to create a nlptN node using ./MAKEDEV nlptN since there already isin't one present in the /dev directory This does not work. After issuing the command "./MAKEDEV nlpt0" i get the msg "nlpt0 - no such device name" I was hoping for help from someone from the mailing list as to what I am doing wrong or maybe I am missing a step. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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