A few weeks ago I asked a question about a Compaq Presario running RH6.1
not being able to find /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1, /dev/lp2 in printtool.
The solution was to ensure that this line was in /etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Well I have another of these mothers that is doing the same thing, only
this time this line is in the /etc/conf.modules file.
This 'puter was printing OK to an old Epson, but I needed to change the
printer definition in printtool so I deleted the Epson and went to install
the (even older) Toshiba. Thats when printtool spat the dummy.
When I do a modprobe lp the modules load OK, as lsmod shows
Module Size Used by
parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 5620 1 (autoclean)
lp 4476 0 (unused)
parport 7124 1 [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
but I get these lines appear in /var/log/messages:
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Restarting the lpd daemon achieves nothing.
I have even recompiled the kernel so that the relevant parts are, but to
no avail:
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
#CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PNP_BPARPORT=m
It's got me stumped. Can anyone help pse.
Howard.
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