> Afraid those are all the ideas I have, about your original question. It's
> really puzzling -- *bash* is claiming an inability to find /dev/lp1? You've
> tried it in that form? Yet "ls -l /dev/pl*" DOES find /dev/lp1? I'm stumped.
I just tried ls again and it still show /dev/lp1.
> >> 4. Are you loading the parport module (or do you have parport support in the
> >> kernel)?
> >
> >I couldn't find anything about parport in man, help, or info. Is this short for
> >paperport?
>
> No. Look in /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/modules.dep to see that I have
> the name right. It's the new way that parallel ports get supported in kernel
> 2.2.x.
Yea, it's spelled right.
> >Isn't there a way to ping accessories? To find out if there is a physical route
> >to them? That would make life really easy. Especially my problems with the
> >mouse, NIC, modem, and this one. Somebody has to have found a way.
>
> Not a general one. Accessories are different (and you don't really mean
> "ping", which is something specific to IP datagrams ... actually, so is
> "route"). The devices that "accessories" connect to are varied, as are the
> ways Linux (or any OS) identifies them. I don't know how one probes for
> parallel-port devices; the BIOS display (shown before the LILO prompt,
> usually) tells you what parallel ports are physically present in the system.
Actually I was thinking of something similar to AT with the modem. Oh
well. If I
actually had some kind of status indicator it'd be too easy:}
Thanks for the help,
John
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