Re: tlug: The simplest possible printer puzzle

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Dennis McMurchy wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Scott M. Stone wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Dennis McMurchy wrote:
> > >   I just get this error message (with any of lp0,1 or 2):
> > > bash: /dev/lp1: No such device
> > 
> > try:
> > modprobe parport_pc
> > modprobe lp
> > 
> > then try again.  I think the hardware driver on your system is modular and
> > needs to be inserted.
> 
>   Scott, thankyou so much!  That did the trick.  Would anyone care to 
> comment on the 'wisdom' of modularizing the _printer_ driver, though?
> I'm not exactly a newbie and I was sure stumped.

if you have a parport IDE / ZIP drive, you don't want the lp driver
loaded.

> 
> > PS - there's no 'g' in 'Linux'.  Contrary to what RMS wants you to think.
> 
>   I'll tell you something:  if there were no GNU in Lignux, I for one 
> would not still be using it five years later.  Wouldn't anyone have
> quickly tired of playing  with a toy kernel that had no real software.
> The kickstart was (and maybe still is) GNU.  Surely, we all owe RMS at
> least as much as we owe Linus.

let's not get THIS war started again... if we had to give credit to
everything IN linux in the actual name, we'd end up with lignubsdsunuX or
something like that.  I probably even missed a few.  I capitalized the X
to represent, well, X, of course :)

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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