no lp devices found?!

[Eric J. Hansen]

Susan,

> Do you know how your printer was configured in the kernel?
> If CONFIG_PRINTER=m, then (if your distribution is like Debian) you need 
> to have the lp module listed in /etc/modules, since this file lists
> the modules that are loaded at boot time.

I set CONFIG_PRINTER=y...

> 
> If CONFIG_PRINTER=y, then I don't think I understand how the error
> message you got is being generated.

hmmm... me neither!  BTW, did you upgrade to a 1.3.x or 1.99/2.0 kernel?
If so, was it a royal pain?  I really want to make the upgrade, but as my
machine is "live" all the time, it is difficult and risky to do it while
risking being down for a day or so.  I really need to patch for ELF (to
run the Java kit, new Netscape beta, etc.), but would just rather do the full
upgrade all at once rather than much around.  I would prefer to do it via
a CDROM so that everything is right there for me, thus I avoid having to
download a bazillion different libraries and tar files...

Thanks!
-Eric

p.s.  I resigned from my fulltime job as a SW developer a few weeks ago.  I'm
moving to San Fran next year, but until then, I'm doing consulting/contracting
full time...  if you hear of anyone that needs software dev (Unix) or Internet
work, please let me know!  More info is at www.worldmachine.com!

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Eric J. Hansen .............................. http://www.worldmachine.com/eric
Developer, Worldmachine Technologies ............ mailto:eric at worldmachine.com