On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 05:42:22PM -0800, David Stern wrote: > On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:37:15 CST, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > After upgrading to the 2.2.1 kernel on a Slink system my old NEC P6 printer > > is no longer found at boot or in /proc/devices. The boot messages reads > > > > lp: driver loaded but no devices found > > > > I'm using modules (parport and parport_pc) for printer support, which I > > also used successfully under a 2.1 series kernel. I've tried the measures > > outlined in Documentation/parport.txt, but no luck. > > > > Can anyone help me figure out what I'm missing? > > This was discussed recently: > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9901/msg02062.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > To: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels? > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:46:16 +1100 > > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works > > > perfectly > > > except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. > > > Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly > > > appreciated!!! > > > > Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers > > have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some > > BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno). > > The reason is quite straightforward; in <= 2.0, lp0 is always the port > at 0x3bc, lp1 is at 0x378, and lp2 is 0x278. In 2.2, they are allocated > only if they are found; lp0 is the first port found, lp1 the second. > This > is more like how the rest of the kernel devices work. >
The problem is _no_ device on any port is found, so no device works--not /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2, or lp3. So adjusting the printcap won't help. Or am I missing something here? Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED]