On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote about, Re: RH 6.1 and printer ports =
how?:
>
> Yes it was connected for sure, but probably it was switched off.
>
> > Stupid question #2: do you have, in /etc/conf.modules or
> > /etc/modules.conf, the lines:
> >
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias char-major-6 lp
> >
>
> No, I have not. I just added these two lines and, after re-booting the
> system, nothing changed.
>
> > There is so much different hardware that folks insist on connecting to a
> > parallel port that you have to tell linux what hardware might be there
> > so it will look for it.
> >
>
> It looks to me that Linux rather doesn't see the parallel port at all
> (the printer itself is further kuestion :-)) I say that, because I
> remember Windoze that was able to initialize a printer on a lpt port
> although the printer hasn't been configured yet thru the control panel.
> But, under Linux, there is no sign that printer (switched on) is there
> on the port. Any idea?
Simply try;
cat filename >/dev/lp0
Where filename is a small text file.
>
> Misko
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