At 12:48 PM 2/13/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [excerpt only]:
>On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>> 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)
This is a good suggestion, but it is NOT what I was asking. My concern is
whether there is a working parallel port *physically present* in the
machine. So I was referring to the display that the AMI (or whatever) BIOS
displays *before* accessing the boot sector and running LILO. This has
nothing to do with the Linux kernel; it is a check solely of the hardware
itself.
>BTW, I have a 690 series HP; they are quite standard and NOT winprinters.
Do they connect to anything other than parallel ports, as, for example, the
HP LaserJets commonly do?
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