Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Lawson gave you what should have been the right solution to this problem,
> and it's not clear to me why it failed. Given that it did, though, try the
> ugly solution and see what it does for you. This bypasses the automatic
> module inserter and gets (or should get) the parallel port running by hand.
>
Lawson suggested to add into /etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias char-major-6 lp
and after I did it nothing changed. Then I was suggested by others to
add:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
and after that it recognized lp0 port so I could reconfigure the
printer, make a test page etc. Interesting is that it continued to print
until the next re-boot of the machine, after what it couldn't recognize
the lp0 and printer again. Added lines within /etc/conf.modules are
still there.
> As root, enter ...
>
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc
> insmod lp
>
> ... and now see if the port is recognized and you can print to it.
No. It just returns to me:
bash: insmod: Command not found
to any of your commands.
What I can only do is to remove the printer, re-boot the box and
re-install the printer again. It will work until the next re-boot and I
have to repeat the process again and again...
Misko
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