[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't think there is any real difference between switched off and not
> connected. Maybe the install saw a parallel port with nothing connected
> and said, "So? I've got bigger fish to fry."
Yep, but it's stupid. Windoze never asked for printer to be switched on
during the *Windoze* installation. As long as I remember, it only
expected printer on when finished *printer* installation and performed a
'print testpage'.
>
> In themselves those lines don't do anything or cause anything to be done
> at bootup. But when some program now refers to the port, the kernel
> autoloader knows to load the lp module, which in turn refers to
> parport_pc, so that should cause parport_lowlevel to get loaded and
> maybe start detecting. you might try "modprobe lp" and see if you get a
> rise out of it. Or try printing something and see what happens.
Yes, but look at it this way: when I boot Windose (and printer is on)
there is a point within the boot process where it initializes the
printer. I look at it like it is checking all hardware devices (in this
case I think of LPT port, not of a printer itself) if they are ok on the
system. Even if a printer is not 'installed' from the Control Panel I am
still able to switch it on and after it says there is no paper I can
feed it a sheet of paper or so (it is a dot matrix printer). But, in
case of Linux, it seems that during the boot process, there is no point
of checking lp port. In that case, there is not only a chance of
printing something, but also I can not feed the printer a paper and it
is not complaining about paper missing (just like Linux doesn't allow
handling the printer at all, ha ha). That is strange :-)
Another thing regarding printers: on the other linux-based box (where I
have reported problems regarding GUI's) I want configure it to become
something like a 'print server' where my clients in the network could
use a printer connected to the linux box as a 'network printer'. It is
working under NT without problems. Now I think that I asked for an
option 'print server on at startup' during the installation of RedHat
6.1 (well maybe it was a Caldera one, but doesn't matter - it didn't
work anyway) so in any case if I missed it, is there a way to add it
now? Any suggestion? The printer is HP LJ 4 Plus.
Misko
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