Re: [PARPORT] lp: driver loaded but no devices found...

From: Tim Conlan (hipcat@ansonic.com.au)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 20:16:00 EDT

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    On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Dennis K wrote:
    > > kernel: 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
    > > kernel: 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
    > > kernel: 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
    > > kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
    > > kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
    > > kernel: parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C
    > > kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
    > >
    > > so the parport module is obviously loading correctly, and setting the port
    > > to parport0, and even seeing my printer. in conf.modules i added a line
    > > saying "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" (redhat 6.2). actually it was
    > > already there, so i deleted it & tried the modules, but that made no
    > > difference anyway, so i stuck it back in :)
    >
    > This I am not sure about, but could it be that the modules uses sysv ipc
    > to communicate? If so, do you have the /dev/shm/ filesystem installed?
    > If not try to read the sysv ipc stuff in
    > linux/Documentation/Configuration.help (just "less" it and press "/" and
    > write /dev/shm).

    /dev/shm wasnt mounted, but i created the mount-point, & added the following
    to /etc/fstab:

    none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0

    & re-booted. (sysvipc is compiled into my kernel..)

    lp still complains "no devices found"

    the only other thing i havent mentioned (will it make a difference?) is that
    i'm running reiserfs.

    [root@ansonic /root]# mount
    /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
    none on /proc type proc (rw)
    /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
    /dev/hdb1 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
    none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
    none on /dev/shm type shm (rw)
    [root@ansonic /root]#

    cheers :)

    tim.

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