I never printed with linux. However, the lpx devices are your parallel ports. So, lpt1 is /dev/lp0 lpt2 is /dev/lp1 and so on. Hth. Greg On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:07:06PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > Hi listers. > I recently connected a printer to my linux box and wanted to see if I > can get it to print. I have looked at the printing-howto and the > printing-usage howto, but I wonder if there's a way to have Linux > check to see if the printer is there? I looked in /dev and I see > /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2, but I don't know what they are for. > I'm running kernel 2.4.5, and when I compiled it I enabled parallel > printer support as well as parallel port support. > In the howto, it mentions /dev/lp, but there isn't one and before I > start tinkering around, I was wondering if anyone has had experience > with this. > thanks. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
