So I am interested to know if you actually fixed this problem. What happened?
I am also having a little trouble. For some reason, the kernel is not
detecting
lp0 on my machine. "dmesg" is reporting:
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Like your setup, lp0 should be on 0x378 with IRQ 7.
I am running RH 6 with kernel 2.2.5-22.
Any suggestions on how to track down why the printer port is not being
detected. I did turn off PnP at the bios level for 0x378 and IRQ 7.
Thanks.
R. J. 6-5-99 11:20p.
"Michael Orion Jackson (by way of R. J. Woodward )" wrote:
>
> Howdy! I've recently installed Mandrake 5.3 (i386) on my machine
> at home, and I upgraded to 2.2.7 (the latest stable kernel when I last
> looked). Printing has been quite stubborn (as in, not working at all, yet
> ;^) ) so far. Here's what I've done/discovered so far (recalling from
> memory as I'm actually sitting in the Welch lab right now):
>
> 1. The new 2.2.x kernels use the parport interface to allow
> multiple devices on one parport and / or devices other than printers (i.e.
> Zip disks and other portible media not going through a SCSI). The doc for
> this is located in /usr/src/linux(sym to
> linux-2.2.7)/Documentation/parport.txt
> and I've read it completely (fairly short document, figure <2k or so), as
> well as the Linux Priting HOW-TO (which basically says 'check back here
> later for parport info when i get around to it' :^)).
> 2. The parallel ports are par0-par2 (could be more I suppose).
> The parport_probe.o file I compiled into my latest kernel recompile
> correctly detects par0 as being IO 0x378 and IRQ 7, and (assuming I have
> the printer turned on) correctly auto-detects the epson stylus color 600 I
> have hooked up to it (I have the proc filesystem installed which is where
> I'm getting all this info from).
> 3. Apparently, the lp0-lp2 ports are not actually bound to the
> physical parport anymore. lpd is just a client of the parport driver.
> 4. In the file /proc/parports/0(zero)/devices lp is listed as teh
> only device using the parport but it isn't shown as active).
> 5. When I try to print something, it is added to the print que (I
> know I'm spelling that wrong, but I'm tired, heh heh) succesfully but when
> I do a lpq it shows something to the effect of 'lp not reachable
> (offline?)".
> 6. My hinv is fairly plain: p233mmx (oc'd to 266mhz), 64mb of
> 10ns SDRAM, atx super7 agp board, etc. I don't see any conflicts for irqs
> or anything in the various sysconfig files... (like interrupts et al. in
> /proc).
> Does anyone have any ideas? :^) Any help or advice or insight is
> greatly appreciated (If I can get this and the sound working, I'd never
> have to boot to win32 again except for games... Too bad my favorite code
> editor is win32 only as far as I can tell (if I was better with C i'd
> offer to port it for them , hehe)).
> Anyhow, see (some subset of you) @ Desertbooks on friday. :^)
>
> mike
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