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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Printer setup problems
Message-ID: <almC8C8xo.JLE@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <dreamer.739560288@mits>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 05:08:12 GMT
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In article <dreamer.739560288@mits> dreamer@mits.mdata.fi (Marko Karppinen) writes:
>Configurations that I tried:
>device   lpa0   at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty (in /sys/i386/conf/MYNAME)
>/dev/lpa0 major 25, minor 0
>
>device   lpt0   at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty irq 7 vector lptintr
>/dev/lpt0 major 16, minor 0

First of all, stay away from lpt - it doesn't work.
To use lpa, make sure /dev/lp is linked to it:
$ rm -f /dev/lp; ln -s /dev/lpa0 /dev/lp

Alternatively, update the lp field in /etc/printcap.
Hope this helps.
-AM