I'm afraid we've gone back and forth about this enough times that I can't
remember what you have and haven't tried. So please forgive me if I retread
old ground.
The kernel reports and the Win9x report both indicate that your printer port
should be /dev/lp1 . And since the kernel finds the port, it's a good bet
that it has parallel-port support. And that /dev entry also appears to be
created correctly.
In an earlier message, you wrote:
"I changed to /lib/modules/2.0.34-*/misc and typed "insmod lp.o" which
appeared to work, then did "echo TEST > /dev/lp1" which caused the
printer to produce a correctly printed word TEST. However, I can't yet
use "lpr hello.c"."
Afraid I missed this before (that "TEST" worked, I mean). Sorry.
The first part (about TEST) means you fixed the problem with the insmod
command. (For a more permanent fix, you'll need to modify your rc files
somehow, but someone more familiar than I with Red Hat will have to tell you
which file to change.) As to the second part, you need to edit /etc/printcap
to create an entry that points to your printer (so lpr can find it on lp1).
I'd guess the printcap entry for "lp" (the default printer) points to lp0
(which I think you said RH picked as your printer port). You'll need to
change that entry so it reads lp1 where it now says lp0.
At 09:59 PM 2/15/99 +0000, A W Young wrote [excerpts only]:
>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)
>
>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.
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