Missing /dev/lp1

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks to Gene, Till and Helge for your helpful tips thus far. As per Gene's advice, I connected my DeskJet via the parallel port, powered it up and rebooted but the direct parallel device was still MIA.

Then, following Till's directions, ran lsmod, found that lp, parport, and parport_pc were indeed missing. Running modprobe lp has helped my situation (I think):


# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
parport_pc             14788   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6724   0  (unused)
parport                23336   1  [parport_pc lp]
usbcore                59308   1
ide-scsi                9328   0
3c59x                  25648   1


I then looked at /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel as Till and Helge suggested:

# pwd
/usr/lib/cups/backend
# ls -la
total 92
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 17 07:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 May 10  2004 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     3 Feb 10 02:26 http -> ipp*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 17264 Dec 15  2003 ipp*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15120 Dec 15  2003 lpd*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  7848 Dec 15  2003 parallel*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  5940 Dec 15  2003 scsi*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  8308 Dec 15  2003 serial*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    17 Feb 10 02:26 smb -> /usr/bin/smbspool*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  7652 Dec 15  2003 socket*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  9216 Dec 15  2003 usb*



Unfortunately, I am still missing direct parallel:/dev/lp1.

I have a feeling I could solve this problem if I could get the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc to load at boot? Maybe something to do with boot time hardware detection?

-Much thanks in advance,
roza9000