[techtalk] lp0

J. Domboski jdomboski at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 27 15:22:28 EST 2000


Raven,
I have the same setup and I believe I had to edit my
/etc/conf.modules
to include the line:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
There was something on RedHat's site about it, so I'll check to see if I 
have anything else about this problem.
Jane D.


>
>Hello All,
>
>I am running redhat 6.1, dual booting with w98 (at least untill I get the
>DVD to work under Linux : ) ) and am having a problem getting the printer
>set up. It seems Linux does not know there are any ports installed ie. no
>/dev/lp0, no /devlp1 etc. Now the printer/port work fine on the other
>side, so I know that is okay. Also, lptest will print the approriate info
>to the screen.
>So my question, then, is how do I install a port?
>
>Thanks!
>
>rav3n
>
>Raven Brooke
>
>   8:45am  up 13:35,  1 user,  load average: 1.08, 1.05, 1.06
>
>
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