From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 16:42:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from norquay.tor.shaw.wave.ca (mail.tor.shaw.wave.ca [24.64.63.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B86A15492 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:42:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from byiu@shaw.wave.ca) Received: from windows ([24.64.189.180]) by norquay.tor.shaw.wave.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA29226 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:43:55 -0500 From: "Ben Yiu" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Printing Issues Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:45:25 -0500 Message-ID: <001401be758f$9d6ea5c0$0200a8c0@windows.housemixes.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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