Hi

I saw the post regarding the p9100.lrp package a while back and thought hmmm, 
I could do something with that. I have a couple of Bering installations and 
I've found it makes a great mini distro as well as a firewall.

The trouble is I'm having problems getting anything to print directly from the 
Bering box.

Forget p9100.lrp, print servers, firewalls and all that for a minute.

If I install parport.o, parport_pc.o & lp.o as modules in the normal way, I 
get the following on boot.

parport - Using /lib/modules/parport.o
parport_pc - Using /lib/modules/parport_pc.o
parport0: PC-Style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp - Using /lib/modules/lp.o
lpt0: using parport0 (polling)

Looks good.

However, if I try echo "test" >/dev/lp0, I get nothing from the printer. 
Should this work? I want to check that I've got the basic system working 
before starting to play with packages such as lpd.lrp & p9100.lrp.

If I use a M$ boot disk and type echo "test" > lpt0, it works, so my hardware 
is ok. I also tried two other machines - same result.

lsmod gives

Module         Pages    Used by
lp                      5516   0 (unused)
parport_pc             15444   1
parport                12064   1 [lp parport_pc]
3c509                   6564   1

is "unused" a giveaway?

I looked at the Bering Kernel Config file and CONFIG_PARPORT=m and 
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m are present, so I assume the kernel is ok.

Do I need anything else?

TIA


Darren



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