Just see the dmesg output to find out what irq and io the kernel is
detecting as lp0. Reboot, go to bios and check if bios has the same
values. make them same values as kernel reports, change port to ECC/ECP
save and reboot. Printer should work. I had same problems with many INtel
mobos.
\Indraneel
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Vinay Tevatia wrote:
> please refer to QA by Atul Chitnis in one of the previous issues of PCQ, may
> be Feb 2K or Mar 2K. may be ur lpt port is not being recognised.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Hanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:42 PM
> Subject: [LIH] Printing with Red Hat 6.2
>
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have installed Red Hat 6.2 on my PC: Intel BX2 motherboard, P III 450
> Mhz,
> > 128 MB Ram, Creative Live Platinum.
> > Everything works fine except that I cannot print. When I try to install a
> > printer, the program does not recognize any printer to be attached to my
> > paralell port lp0 and tells that if I do not have a serial printer that
> means
> > I may have a seious problem worth investigating but does not give a clue
> or a
> > hint of what the problem could be. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740
> attached
> > to that port and it works fine with Windows 2000 Professional.
> > I need to solve that problem so that I can get rid of Winsloth.
> >
> > Any help out there?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > John Hanon
> >
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