Thank you, this solved the problem! Now I can try to make the
Canon BJC-2000 work.
I had searched the archives for this list and didn't turn up anything.
The trouble with search engines is that if you don't know exactly
what you are looking for you get too much or nothing.
Mike
On 11 Jan 00, at 13:43, ALESSANDRO.PASOTTI.AP@bayer-a wrote:
> Well, I' ve had the same problem with RH6.1 and I solved it putting some
> configuration parameters in /etc/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
>
> of course you have to put your real addresses and IRQ in option
>
> after doing this you should see your first printer as lp0 and _NOT_ as lp1
> as was in older linux distributions.
>
> > After installing Red Hat 6.1 I can't seem to get a local printer to
> > work. I had no problem with RH 5.2.
>
> > Printtool can't detect a printer on lp0, lp1, or lp2. I had a Canon
> > BJC-2000 connected when I did the install, and after having no luck
> > getting that to print, I connected my Panasonic KX-P2123 which worked
> > with RH 5.2. Printtool still doesn't detect the printer and gives the
> > error "/dev/lp1"no such device when I try to test print directly to the
> > port. /dev/lp1 exists. lpc status lp shows the queue is enabled,
> > printing enabled but waiting for the printer to become available
> > (offline ?). The printer is online and prints from DOS. I thought
> > printool was supposed to make this easy! It did with RH 5.2, what's
> > different with RH6.1? I did try lp0, lp1 and lp2 with the same results.
> > Help!
>
> > Mike
>
