The responses I received made it clear that it was a Linux (not BIOS) issue.
I actually found a discussion of this at redhat.com under their "gotchas." I
remotely updated the modutils package, created a foo file, and remotely
printed with lpr foo (isn't Linux cool?). At least, I _think_ I printed--I
didn't receive an error message and I'm not there to get the printout.
Thanks for the help!
-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto F. Munita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 9:28 AM
To: ackthpth
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel port not seen
Hi,
May be you have to instal the parport_pc module, first you have to
know the iobase and the irq of your lpt port (see it in setup), after
that, try
modprobe parport_pc.o io=your-iobase irq=your-irq
and
modprobe lp.o parport0
This work to me.....
Flavio
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, ackthpth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed RH6.1 on my system, but it won't see the parallel port. When I
> run printcfg and try to set up a local printer, it says "not detected."
>
> My BIOS is set up with
>
> fastboot off
> PnP aware OS? No
> Parallel port "auto" and EPP. (I also tried specifying 378 and Normal, but
> that didn't help).
>
> Any idea why my parallel port isn't being recognized?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oren
>
>
