Re: Help wanted with parallel port rule

[Barrie Stott <G.B.Stott@bolton.ac.uk>]

I'm very grateful for your reply. There's a lot here to get to grips
with as there is with Kay's email. The main thing for me at present
is the following:

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:18:04PM -0500, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> The lp0 device file should show up when you load the lp module (I
> think), although you'll need the parport and parport_pc modules as well.
> You may want to try loading all of them if you don't have the file,
> though I think lp depends on both parport* modules.

I've never come across the lp module before. `modprobe lp' brought me
/dev/lp0 that I didn't have before without using links.conf. A lot of
other things are dropping into place and I want to play with these a
bit before getting to some of the other things you said.

> What I think Kay meant is that udev should be creating /dev/lp0 without
> any help from rules at all.  If it doesn't do that, then there's some
> other kind of problem here; perhaps not all the modules are loaded or
> something?

How's that (not all modules loaded) for hitting the nail on the head?
I didn't have /dev/lp0 and couldn't find a good way to get it. Now it
comes by using `modprobe lp' and vanishes again with `rmmod lp'. And I
can use udev info with /dev/lp0 now as well. Things are looking up.

Thanks again; you've made me very happy.

Barrie.


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