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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!pcl!bermudj From: bermudj@westminster.ac.uk (Tony Bermudez) Subject: line printer help Message-ID: <Cw4ous.HH6@westminster.ac.uk> Organization: University of Westminster X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:37:40 GMT Lines: 31 The following is a request for assistance for a friend. Could you mail responses to me, please? Thanks in advance. BSD Release 0.1 by William & Lynne Jolitz [01.1.46 08/02/88 10:40] This is a plea by a user of the above operating system on a PC, attempting to attach a hard copy device to the system at Port LPT1. Under normal BSD one would edit the /etc/printcap file putting in the apropriate entry, followed by the usual change of status of the spol directory assigned to this printer and finally ending with /etc/lpx start lp On investigation the printcap file on this system contains the line: lp:local:lineprinter:\ :lp = /dev/lp:sd= /var/spool/lpd: lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: There is however a hitch, as /dev/lp does not come pre-configured into the operating system as released. Instead the device driver file /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/lpt.c needs to be compiled and a new kernel generated that includes the device driver before invocation of the specified file /dev/lp, that has already been first created with the correct major and minor numbers. Is anyone out there who knows the magic incantation to compile this file and modifications to other related files to bring this printer on stream? Better still if anyone posseses the full instructions ie. something akin to installation manuals for utilities, for printers, ethernet and NFS, I will be most grateful if he/she would share it/them with me. Thank you.