On Wed Mar 01 2000 at 08:57, "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
Why? Do you like waiting around? :)
> PnP aware OS? No
Turn this back ON and use isapnptools. It works just fine with linux
(recent kernels). (Try "/sbin/pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf").
Power management (eg, power off after a halt) also works just great
with linux too (that is, if you have an ATX power supply).
> 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?
Not without "being there", no. Sorry.
I assume that you do have the lp.o module loaded (do "lsmod" to see).
You might need to load it with "modprobe" rather than "insmod", and if
you do, then put this into your/etc/conf.modules file...
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
There is a printing-howto, along with the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/* files which are often very useful for
nutting out these sorts of problems.
Also check the kernel output from the /proc/ files...
cat /proc/devices
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
cat /proc/pci
... and so on. Lots of run-time information to be found this way.
Cheers
Tony
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