I appreciate the replies from people who offered help. While no single reply hit my problem, the collective effort helped considerably in narrowing my troubleshooting. Thanks.
When I re-compiled the kernel to include the parallel port, I didn't realize I'd have to run update-modules to get the right information in my conf.modules file. That's what it took. Is this a newbie question? I don't know. I've been running Debian Linux for over a year now. The fact that I don't know every detail of Linux actually speaks well to the general effectiveness of the distribution scheme. Apt and dselect generally get things to the right place with a reasonable startup configuration. JEB > > Linux doesn't recognize my parallel port. > > > > The lp module is loaded. > > > > ls > /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 both give the message "no such device". > > > > I can use the parallel port from Windows 95, so the hardware is > > functional. > > > > Anything I should try? > > > > Mine works, under kernels v2.2.x. > > I have the following in /etc/modutiles/aliases: > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > > and the (tightly-edited) output of lsmod is: > Module Size Used by > parport_pc 5484 1 (autoclean) > lp 4840 0 (unused) > parport 6612 1 [parport_pc lp] > > The way parallel port modules are organised has changed with kernels > 2.2.x away from a monolithic, PC-specific module to allow for a more > uniform approach to dealing with non-PC and non-standard parallel ports. > That's why I have the alias, to associate the generic hardware-level > driver name with the particular driver required for the PC parallel > port. > > If you edit files in /etc/modutils, run update-modules as root to ensure > that your changes take effect. > > > John P. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
