Michael Mayo <mlmayo@texas.net> writes:
Yes, I have lpd started it shows up at the end of the boot messages. I went back through the make menuconfig and I must have been mistaken on the parallel printer support. I am unable to find it anywhere in 2.2.2. There is a parallel port support ( CONFIG_PARPORT ) however compiling this in does not solve the problem. I am at a loss as to where the printer suport is, it usually resides in Character devices. Has anyone experienced this before? Is my source tar ball missing something? Or does the new kernel handle printing differently and I'm just not seeing where it is?
Thanks, Mike
The printer devices are (sometimes) numbered differently now -- one computer used to use /dev/lp2, now it uses /dev/lp0 -- also (assuming you compiled line printer support as a module) you need something like: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x278 With the correct io address you are using. (This computer generated an interrupt for every character printed so I do not use interupts with it.) See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt for more details. (You should be able to kludge things up to put the lp on the same /dev/lp? as the old kernel, but once I "located" my printer I did not bother looking into it any further.) Hope this helps. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>