On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> With the multiple levels of quoting in your replies, they've become a bit
> difficult for me to read ... but it appears, from reading this one and the
Hear-hear
> Related to this, when you boot the machine, what does the BIOS report about
> parallel ports (this information would be somewhere, usually toward the
In particular, there should be a line like
[Stuff referring to time and system name] kernal: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
in the /var/adm/messages file. If RH doesn't have this, I don't know
where it is. If this isn't there, your kernal has not detected a
parallel port during bootup. If this is where your printer is plugged,
you need to start here to find out why. If you have a stock kernal, I
would suggest you have a bad parallel card. If you rolled your own, you
may have left out support in the configuration. If this is what
happened, you should probably go back and put in parallel port support
rather than using modules, but each to his own here.
In addition to the kernal messages, there should be an entry in
/proc/devices for 'lp'
BTW, I have a 690 series HP; they are quite standard and NOT winprinters.
Good Luck
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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