On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Tim Morton wrote about, Parallel Problems:
> Real newbie question this one but no apologies - we all have to start
> somewhere...!
>
> Just installed RH6.2 (completely new installation - no legacy version of
> Linux) on Intel P90 based system with Intel chip set and nothing that
> fancy or unusual (IDE Drives, 64 Mb RAM, Mach64 video, AH2940 SCSI card
> for DDS2 tape drive, 3COM 3C509 NIC, SB compatible sound card)
>
> Everything seemed pretty great for my first ever installation of Linux
> (been doing NT for 10yrs+) and I even got the sound card to work first
> time - then I tried to print.....
>
> End of long story is that my installation doesn't seem to be able to
> recognise the printer port as it starts up - Printer port is set normal
> in the BIOS, IRQ7 378h (no conflicting devices) but Linux just won't
> see it.
>
> I'd be really grateful if anybody can tell me how to manually add a port
> definition to my setup or explain why this could be happening - hope
> there is enough background info above...
Its not a question of adding a port, its a question of correcting something
which seems to be a recuring problem.
Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/conf.modules file.
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Now try;
modprobe lp
cat filename > /dev/lp0
or use your printool icon or whatever to try printing.
You can read more info on this problem from the archives;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
> Tim
>
>
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Regards Richard
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