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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!rouge!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: Printer setup problems Message-ID: <almC8C8xo.JLE@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <dreamer.739560288@mits> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 05:08:12 GMT Lines: 15 In article <dreamer.739560288@mits> dreamer@mits.mdata.fi (Marko Karppinen) writes: >Configurations that I tried: >device lpa0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty (in /sys/i386/conf/MYNAME) >/dev/lpa0 major 25, minor 0 > >device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty irq 7 vector lptintr >/dev/lpt0 major 16, minor 0 First of all, stay away from lpt - it doesn't work. To use lpa, make sure /dev/lp is linked to it: $ rm -f /dev/lp; ln -s /dev/lpa0 /dev/lp Alternatively, update the lp field in /etc/printcap. Hope this helps. -AM