In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>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.
I have no adm directory in the var directory!
>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.
The parallel port works fine with Windows 95.
> In addition to the kernal messages, there should be an entry in
>/proc/devices for 'lp'
The /proc/devices file contains:
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyp
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
9 md
22 ide1
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