Thanks a lot Martin... that did it.
I've been reading the printing-howto ver 2.29 (old) and missed
the reference to the parport.txt.
geoffrey
"Visser, Martin (SNO)" wrote:
>
> I had the same problem on my home PC. It is do with Plug and Play BIOS not
> giving the kernel the info it needs. After scouring the Printing HOWTO I
> found that the following added to /etc/conf.modules did the trick:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
>
> See http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport/parport.txt and
> http://www.linux.com/howto/Printing-HOWTO.html
>
> for more info
>
> Martin Visser
> Technology Consultant - Compaq Services
>
> Compaq Computer Australia
> 410 Concord Road
> Rhodes, Sydney NSW 2138
> Australia
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoffrey Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2000 0:34
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [SLUG] RH6.1 not detecting lp0
> >
> >
> > I have a problem installing a printer on a RH6.1 machine.
> > printtool gives an error mesage that "Auto-detection has
> > found that /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2 were not detected".
> >
> > I setup with printtool to print to a remote host
> > and i can print to teh remote host ok.
> >
> > The same machine when running debian2.1 (on another partition)
> > prints fine. So it's not a hardware problem. Probably.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to how I can sort this out?
> >
> > geoffrey
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