Hi Steve

This definitely works on Bering. I've used it on rc3, rc4 and stable. I've 
reproduced it on a number of installations. I have a floppy disk at work 
containing Bering_1.0-stable and P9100, that I shove into an old 486 to give 
me an instant emergency print server. I've also added a second ISA parallel 
port card on one 486 to handle 2 printers.

I can't remember how long I've been using p9100 with Bering at home - ages, 
but it's been fine. rc3 required you to create /dev/lp0, but that was changed 
in rc4.

The main thing is making sure you have the modules loaded. Someone has 
already replied with that information, but for completeness, they are:

parport
parport_pc
lp

Are you doing this? What do you see when the modules load during boot? You 
should see messages like these, which are from my machine. 

parport0: PC-style at 0x378
parport0: irq7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling)
lp0: compatibility mode

Are you familiar with dmesg? If not, type it in on the Bering console after 
it has booted to see the messages.

The modules are loaded in the normal way. You could put them into initrd, but 
I'm not sure that achieves anything more. Alternatively, you could try 
loading the modules manually just to see what happens

I can't think of anything else I had to do. IIRC the process will not start 
unless you have the printer modules loaded. Once you see the process in ps, 
you should be there. Portscan the Bering box as well if you need to check the 
port is open.


Darren





On Monday 30 December 2002 04:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has gotten the p9100 package to work with Bering
> 1.0?
>
> Tired the package from http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/ , but was not
> successfull.
>
> It seems to work fine with Dachstein, but in Bering it says it says it is
> loading the package during bootup, but when I do a ps ax or lrpkg-l, no
> process listed, no package listed....
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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