On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:20:33PM -0700, justin bengtson wrote: > i'm having some trouble with CUPS, but i don't think it's CUPS itself. the > spooler seems to be working fine. what i'm wondering is if there's a special > device i need to set up in /dev for the first paralel port or if i need to > compile something special into the kernel to make this work. i am using: > slackware 8.0 > kernel 2.4.5 (can upgrade to .19 if needed...) > > thanks!
You need parallel support in the kernel: # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y In this case, one would modprobe parport_pc. Either compiled in or modules, you should see something like this in your kernel messages (dmesg): parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected I have a /dev/par0 node, owned by root:lp. I assume that is the parallel port. However I don't have a local printer to test with. Cory _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
