On 27 Jul 00, at 16:39, Wayne Dyer wrote:
> Alan Mead wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> > This is a fairly frequent problem. I would find an archive and
> > search for lpt1 and perhaps for [SOLVED] although I think a lot of
> > people don't report their success.
> >
> > You can check that there is a 'parport' in your /etc/conf.modules.
> > If not, I or the archives can tell you what to put. But this was
> > only news when 6.0 came out.
>
> That solved mine:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
The install puts that in for you now. If your BIOS is set funny,
or you have more than one parallel port, you may need to add the
options line. In my case, I have an extra card which can only be
set to IRQ7, 0x278 (the sound card takes 5), while the port on the
motherboard is set to 0x378 with no IRQ. lpr won't see the printer
on the former port without an options line like this:
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,7
It comes up as lp1. The info in the kernel docs (devices.txt ?)
wasn't up-to-date as of a while back, ie, even when the on-board
port was set to 0x3bc, it still wasn't seen as lp0 (so try lp1 or
lp0, depending on your BIOS settings).
Steve
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