I am setting up two essentially identical machines using a three CD
Debian 2.2 set from Linux Central, about two months old. Parallel
printing won't work on either machine.
Today I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with lp and parport (three different
settings) all compiled in (not modules). One other parport module was
mysteriously installed. The kernel gives a message at boot time, that
an interrupt 7 was detected, suggesting that I write to procfs to set
up the port.
This has never before happaned on any of the several Debian boxen I
have set up. Printing has been trivial, with the exception that the
kernel configuration is easy to overlook.
On the other machine, I am still in the same boat. The printer is
never detected at boot (no printer murmurs as there usually are on
boot.)
More particulars: HP DJ 870
ASUS B5A motherboard
Is my hardware hosed? I changed cables, with no change in behavior.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Alan Davis
Marianas High School and N. Marianas College,
Saipan, N. Mariana Islands
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every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
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