newbie question

[steve doerr]

Jeffrey Watts wrote:

> Howdy.
>
> The thing that has changed between Red Hat 5.x to 6.x that has broken your
> printer is the new 2.2.x kernel.  One of the new features of the kernel is
> that it changed the way that parallel ports were numbered.
>
> So, if your printer port was "lp1" on your old machine, it is probably
> "lp0" now.  This happened to me personally.  Change the line:
>
>         :lp=/dev/lp1:>
> In your /etc/printcap to "      :lp=/dev/lp0:" (or vice versa) to fix this.
>
> Jeffrey.

I happened to need to make the same change except I'm using par0 in my printcap
instead of lp0.  Can't remember where I found that but the parallel port change
on the 2.2 kernel caught me off gaurd also.