Replying to parts of both your recent messages, combined below.
At 01:10 PM 2/14/99 +0000, A W Young wrote [excerpts only]:
>[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!
Try /var/log/messages -- really, he meant to look wherever your system
writes its syslog files - though /var/log/messages is the most common place,
this is somewhat installation dependent.
>>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.
But in a different message, you 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
>>lower right, on the screen that comes up briefly *before* the LILO prompt)?
>Nothing related to parallel ports.
These two statements are inconsistent - if the BIOS can't find a parallel
port, WinXX won't be able to either (and, of course, Linux won't). You
probably need to check this more carefully, as it suggests there is
something unusual about your hardware configuration. What you really need to
tell us, using information either from the BIOS or from the WinXX Control
Panel, is what IRQ and IO ports the parallel port is using. Once you do
this, one of us should be able to help you with the Linux part.
>>If, after booting, you run the command "ls -l /dev/lp*", what is the result?
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 11 23:07 /dev/lp
>crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/lp0
>crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/lp1
>crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998 /dev/lp2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Nov 15 20:46 /dev/lp3
The entries for lp0, lp1, and lp2 are right (or at least they match the
correspondign devices on my system). The entries for lp and lp3 aren't
devices (devices beging with c for character or b for block), so I'm not
sure what they are intended to be, since they aren't symlinks either (does
someone else know if this is something specific to Red Hat?).
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