Tried it, lpd says the printer is offline. Trying to cat a text file to /dev/lp0
or /dev/lp1 tells me no such device.
My system is RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.14 and I tried compiling parport in as a
module and as part of the kernel. Neither works. I think there might be a LILO
setting that needs to be done, but I do not know what to put in the append=
line. I have tried append="lp=0x378,7" and append="parport=0x378,7" and
append="lp=parport1,none,none" (I might be off a little--I'm in winblows right
now) all based on what bootparam's LP section said, the comments in the lp.c
code, and even the Documentation/parport.txt files.
billy ball wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Roland wrote:
>
> > I am trying to configure a printer port on my Dell Latitude CPi R400 (newer
> > P2-400s). I assume it's the standard LPT port at 0x378 and irq 7. Howver,
> > compiling kernel 2.2.14 with parallel port support installed as with my
> > home PC (which works), lpd and printtool do not recognize /dev/lp0 or
> > /dev/lp1.
> >
> > IS there a special trick to making it work on this machine?
>
> perhaps:
>
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> insmod lp
>
> ???
>
> >
> >
> > -=>Jim Roland
> >
> > "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower."
> > --Anonymous
> >
> >
> >
