[cups.general] Missing /dev/lp1

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 February 2005 01:47, roza9000 at hotmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running Slackware 10.0 with the 2.4.26 kernel. I am trying to
> serve an HP Deskjet 680C to my home LAN via Samba 3.0 and cups. I
> can confirm cups support in Samba via:
>
>
>ldd `which smbd`     <which gives>
>
>libcups.so.2 => ...  <among others>
>
>I have succesfully started cupsd, but before I add a printer to
> CUPS, the CUPS software administration manual recommends that I run
> lpinfo -v to completely list available devices.
>
>Indeed, this does list many, many devices...
>
>
>lpinfo -v
>
>network socket
>network http
>network ipp
>network lpd
>direct scsi
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS4?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS5?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS6?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS7?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS8?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS9?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS10?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS11?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS12?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS13?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS14?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS15?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS16?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS17?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS18?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS19?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS20?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS21?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS22?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS23?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS24?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS25?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS26?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS27?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS28?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS29?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS30?baud=115200
>serial serial:/dev/ttyS31?baud=115200
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp0
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp1
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp2
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp3
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14
>direct usb:/dev/usb/lp15
>network smb
>
>..but conspicuously absent is:
>
>direct parallel:/dev/lp1
>
>This is of great intrest to me because I wish to connect my HP
> Deskjet 680C to the parallel port. If any one knows why or how my
> /dev/lp1 is missing I would greatly appreciate their feedback.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>roza9000

Its not going to be found unless plugged in and turned on, which might 
even require a reboot with it attached and powered up.

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