>
> > printer problem. In fact, the installation never asks about a printer.
> > This is different from what I'm used to with all the previous RH installs.
> > The /dev/lp* files are there, but if I try to pipe something into them it
> > complains that the device does not exist. I know my hardware works fine
> > b/c I had 6.0 installed on it just before I installed 6.1 and everything
> > worked fine.
>
> The device is probably not loaded if you havent configured it and a printer.
> Try
>
> modprobe parport
> modprobe parport_pc
>
> then using /dev/lp*
>
> The print tool lets you set up printing and I assume it does the magic there
>
the whole issue is that RH seems not to care too much about the parallelport
especially when it comes to plip:
I sent several bugfixes (RH 5.2 treated plip as a broadcast device instead of point to
point)
to Redhats Bugzilla,
but the problems seems still present in 6.1:
configuring PLIP with linux conf doesn't work,
and the precise reason is that I have to set manually the IRQ
by echo "7" >/proc/..... (the parport proc entry).
again very disappointing from a beginning user POV.
for me that is definitively a "BUG",
at least provide an init script which sets the irq manually with
the value found by the parport probe routine.
regards,
Benno.
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