On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Brian Long <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
> 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/ Thanks, Brian, for the note to use the ELRepo-supplied driver. As explained in: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-lp kmod-lp is the package to install. It was unfortunate that Red Hat dropped the parallel port support as of RHEL6. But the kmod should work fine for those who need it. Akemi _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
