Tim,
Thanks for your reply. I am trying to develop a user space driver for a data
aquisition controller I have developed. I only used 'cat' to illustrate my
problem. My open("/dev/parport0", O_RDWR) statement in my user space driver
returns the same error 'no such device'.
Dave.
On Monday 09 April 2001 01:23, you wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:46:39PM -0500, David Lambert wrote:
> > If I load the lp driver, it appears to work OK but I still cannot access
> > /dev/parport0. Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?
>
> /dev/parport0 isn't what you think it is. /dev/lp0 is something you
> can cat to, /dev/parport0 is for user-space drivers.
>
> Load the lp module, and use /dev/lp0.
>
> Tim.
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