How to set up a serial printer?

[eds996]

I am converting over to fedora from Sco Unix 5.0 and need to know how to
setup a serial printer.

When I used printer config there was no /dev/ttyS0 just the /dev/lp0 as a choice for locally connected printer.

I thought fedora was suppose to build the serial ports if it saw them on your machine.

under Sco Unix I would do the following:

mkdev serial --- and set up my serial port

then

mkdev lp --- and set up a printer using the serial device I had just created.

How does this work in Fedora? I have the Complete Refernece RED HAT Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edtion by Mc Graw Hill publisher and all it says about installing serial is
use mknod and see a HOWTO readme file under /usr/share/doc/HOWTO which isn't there.

the man pages give no clue as to how to really use mknod.

Help!

[imdeemvp]

make sure your printer is supported www.linuxhardware.net and www.linuxprinting.org

[Jman]

I believe the device should be available.

The printer config tool has a Custom Device option to enter what device you want. Try the one that worked before.

Which printer?

[eds996]

It's supported as the print config file has it as an option to select.

I think the main problem is the serial port isn't configured right.


How do I check this?