On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Help: RH6.1
cannot see my printer port:
> Dear All
>
> I'm running RH6.1, kernel 2.2.Idontremember on a pentium, the parallel port is
> 0x378 IRQ 7 and works well under DOS.
>
> "cat /proc/devices "
>
> does'nt show any lp entry and
>
> "cat /proc/ioports"
>
> does'nt see any parallel port (lp or 0x378 or 0x278 addresses).
>
> "dmesg | grep driver" shows something like:
>
> lp: driver loaded but no device found
>
> modules lp, parport and parport_probe are loaded but inactive and autoclean is
> set
>
>
> What to do now? Any idea? Should I configure modules ?
Make sure you have the devices in /dev
ls -al /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 Apr 27 1995 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 Apr 27 1995 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 Apr 27 1995 /dev/lp2
If they are not there cd /dev
Run the MAKDEV script, something like
./MAKEDEV lp0
ioports and devices will show lp even if the printer itself is not
connected, so i think all will point to You BIOS.
You have your BIOS setup for PCI, set IRQ7 for legacy.
> Thank you for helping
>
> Bye
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Regards Richard
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Merry Xmas.
