On 6/16/11 10:28 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Hello, > > Since Red Hat 6 has been released, the kernel provided has not supported > parallel ports. Unfortunately my workplace has decided to continue to > use them as a means to use printers so it is important that they are > supported. > > I have raised this issue with the manufacturer of the parallel port and > they claim to be in contact with Red Hat. I have found a bugzilla bug[1] > that matches the problem and points to a knowledge base article, but it > does not exist, yet. The issue has been around for over 6 months now and > there is no time table for a solution that I have found. Is there anyone > @RH that could follow up on this for me and see where it stands? Neither > the manufacture or anyone attached to the bug has been able to provide > me with an update.
It's been a while since I played with parallel ports on Linux, but it appears the ELrepo project has a kernel module for lp.ko ready to go. http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/ http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php tells you how to use their yum repo. /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | Corporate Security Programs Org . | | | . | | | . ' ' C I S C O _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
