Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 06:18 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> Well your experience seems to indicate that udev is the problem. It >> occurred to me that maybe I don't see a parallel port option in cups >> because I don't have a parallel port on my machine. > > That's exactly why. :-) > > The CUPS web interface (and system-config-printer, which behaves in the > same way) shows *available* devices. The 'parallel' CUPS backend looks > for parallel ports. If it doesn't find any, there will not be an option > for a parallel port when setting up a new queue. > > The udev problem is that, for some reason, /dev/lp0 is not getting > created. > Try running "modprobe lp" and see if that fixes the problem. I just checked, and the lp module, as well as the parport module were not being loaded. It looks like this is because of a change in /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules that is no longer calling for the parport and lp modules to be loaded. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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