On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:05:15AM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote: [...] | Now for me dmesg shows | | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)] | lp0: using parport0 (polling). | ppdev: user-space parallel port driver | | I've missed something I think, any ideas??
What indication do you have that your parport isn't working?
All you need is to load the
parport
parport_pc
lp
modules and the parallel port will work.
To test it, dump some data to /dev/lp0 and you should see the printer
react. If the printer can handle ASCII input directly you should see
it print[1]. For example,
# echo -ne 'Hello World\n\f' >> /dev/lp0
HTH,
-D
[1] All non-Apple laser printers I've seen and old "line" printers
can handle ASCII text directly. Apple Laserwriters can only handle
Postscript. Many (low-end) inkjets made in the past few years can
only handle propietary, binary, data streams.
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