Alexandre Blanchette (blanalex@blanalex.dyndns.org)
Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:53:12 -0500
OK, then, in /etc/conf.modules, add the line
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc #there was a typo in the line you erased
and try to install your printer, if the printer installation utility still
doesn't detect, you can force parameters by adding this line to
/etc/conf.modules:
options lp io=0x378 irq=7
if that still don't work, then i'm clueless ;)
Alexandre Blanchette
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:42:53PM -0500, ohm wrote:
> Dear Alexander,
>
> I already did the update on lpr with the Red Hat Update Agent. That is a
> pretty cool thing, it is like Windows Update.
>
> lpd is up and running. The problem that I am having is when I run the Gnome
> Control Panel to add a printer, I first get a warning about not having ncpfs
> installed but I can ignore it if I do not want to use network printers. Fine.
>
> Then when I choose to install a local printer, the Print Tool scans the lp
> lines and says there is no hardware on the lp0, lp1, and lp2 lines. Says it
> might be a hardware problem. I tried installing the correct printer out of
> the list anyway and of course it does not work.
>
> The Print HOWTO says tha PC BIOS PnP usually causes the parallel port not to
> be seen on a linux system. I think this is so because I get an error during
> the boot isapnp stage, something about rescheck cannot probe devices already
> in use. I had to force a hard IRQ on my network card in pc bios to get that
> to work and work it does, really well. I am typing this to you now thanks to
> eth0 working quite well.
>
> I reinstalled the lpr update again and see no lines added to my
> /etc/conf.modules file. I know the update works as the Gnome RPM program
> tells you what files are added and where they are going.
>
> I did delete the lines I added to my /etc/conf.modules file.
>
> What I need is some way to force the system to find my parallel port and load
> it into a module.
>
> Something similar to an options in /etc/conf.modules to tell it where to find
> the parallel port, what it's address is (0x378), and what it's IRQ is (IRQ
> 7). If I can to that, then I am sure that the parallel port printer will be
> seen by the sytem.
>
> Any tips that you have on how to accomplish this would be highly appreciated.
>
> Yours Truely,
> Paul Baio
> ohm@bellsouth.net
>
> Alexandre Blanchette wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:28:53PM -0500, ohm wrote:
> > > Dear Sir,
> > >
> > > I have Red Hat 6.1 installed on my computer that my brother got me for
> > > Christmas. I installed the setup with printer support.
> > >
> > > When I use the Gnome Contol Panel Print Tool, I see that there are no
> > > devices on lp0, lp1, lp2. When I try to install my printer and test it,
> > > nothing happens. Then I delete all /var/spool/lp directories.
> > >
> > > I have added this line to my /etc/conf.modules file:
> > > alias paraport_lowlevel paraport_pc as per web help suggested. This did
> > > not help at all, the printer still does not work
> > >
> > > I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer.
> > >
> > > Please help me to get my local printer running under Red Hat Linux 6.1
> >
> > all you need is to get RedHat's updated package of lpr. You can get it at
> > ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/lpr-0.46-1.i386.rpm .
> >
> > i suggest you before installing/upgrading the package that you remove the
> > line you added to /etc/conf.modules because the package will add the
> > correct line (you've got a typo, it's `parport_...', not `paraport_...'.
> >
> > to upgrade the lpr package, just do rpm -Uvh lpr-0.46-1.i386.rpm and that
> > should theoraticly solve your problem.
> >
> > Alexandre Blanchette
> >
> > Hubbard's Law:
> > "Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out of it alive."
> >
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