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narcisse

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Registered: 2006-09-30

Posts: 6

Dell 3100cn parallel printer not detected

For 2 days, my parallel printer is no longer detected. No /dev/lp0 device is created.

In /var/log/messages, lp0 was still present the 13th of march, but not in the last 2 days...

lsmod | grep lp gives :

lp                      9220  0
parport                31432  2 ppdev,lp

Kernel : 2.6.24-ARCH

Can someone help me ?

Last edited by narcisse (2008-03-15 17:32:14)

ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: Dell 3100cn parallel printer not detected

I lost my local printer as well in the last 24 hours in my office. As a result, I'm booting Slackware there. At home, however, I still have  local printer. Have no idea what the difference is. At home, where I do still have a local printer recognized by Arch, I get this for lsmod | grep lp:

usblp                  12416  0
lp                      9220  0
parport                31432  2 ppdev,lp
usbcore               125420  7 usblp,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,visor,usbserial

eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 339

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Re: Dell 3100cn parallel printer not detected

Same problem here, with a HP Deskjet 710C, after upgrade to kernel 2.6.24 (from 2.6.21)

appolito

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From: Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Registered: 2005-08-17

Posts: 30

Re: Dell 3100cn parallel printer not detected

Same problem here. /dev/lp0 didn't exist. Quick and dirty hack that helped was downgrading udev to 116-3.

Dillweed

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-10-29

Posts: 17

Re: Dell 3100cn parallel printer not detected

I had the same problem too.  Seem like a bug report needs to be filed if the current udev doesn't correctly setup devices upon booting.