Re: Setting up HP printer

[A W Young]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray
Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I'm coming to this thread late, so I apologize if I'm reviewing familiar ground.
>
>It sounds like you need to find your printer before continuing to muck
>around with /dev entries. So ...
>
>1. Look in /proc/ioports ("more /proc/ioports") for a promising entry. On my
>system, the parallel ports are labeled "lp", but you should look for
>anything plausible. Ports 378-37F should be associated with /dev/lp0, ports
>278-27F with /dev/lp1 .

No mention of any kind of lp entries in /proc/ioports.

>2. Look in /proc/interrupts (as above) and see what, if anything, is using
>IRQ 5 (probably /dev/lp1) or IRQ 7 (probably /dev/lp0).

Nothing on IRQ 5 or IRQ 7.

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