[sane-devel] Help with ppdev /dev/parport0 on Mandrake Linux 9

[Ryan Harkin]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 19:41, Ryan Harkin wrote:
> You need to create the /dev/parportX devices under Mandrake.  When I was
> testing my scanner under Mandrake, I created /dev/parport0 manually using
> mknod:
>
> 	# mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0
>
> However, after playing with the printer config utilities and doing some
> other playing about Mandrake created /dev/parport1..9 without me noticing.


Sorry, I should have said that the X in /dev/parportX stood for the port 
number (maybe that was obvious :) and that Mandrake 9 did not create parport0 
because I had already created it using mknod.

I deleted my /dev/parport0 device file and recreated it using a softlink, 
similar to how the other device files were created by Mandrake.

	# ln -s /dev/parport/0 /dev/parport0

Or something similar

Cheers,
Ryan.