In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray
Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>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.
Found the file. It contains:
Feb 14 11:47:52 localhost kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
Feb 15 21:33:30 localhost kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
>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.
Upon booting the BIOS reports nothing about parallel ports. However,
the Windows Control Panel reveals:
LPT1 is on I/O range 0378-037B with IRQ 7.
>>>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?).
I think I may have created lp by mistake when trying to get the printer
going. lp3 may also be something to do with me (!) but I'm not sure.
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A. W. Young
http://www.tylehurst.demon.co.uk/
