Hi Erik, On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:25, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Later today I installed Windows XP in my Workstation. Every thing but min LJ1100A does work ok.
Once I had it up on another harddisk there were no problems at all.
I do have the latest CD-Rom for my LJ1100A and it supports XP.
I have the following set in my /etc/group file for my "lp":
lp:x:7:erik
In the vmware I have switched off the bidirectional in the LPT1 setup.
Then there are no errors at boot up.
If I set the bidirectional to on, following info comes up:
"The bidirectional virtual device LPT1 is using the old-style unidirectional host device /dev/lp0. You must either turn off bidirectional mode for LPT1 in the configuration editor, or change its path to a parport-style device )probably /dev/parport0) Device parallel0 will start disconnected"
At the time when the printer worked, it was set to /dev/lp0.
Of course there is something not as it should be, but I cannot think what.
Do you have any ideas, or if anybody else reads this, and have experience with the problem I have, then please come on with what you may help me with.
I write to SLE because I have had no feedback asking the same on the vmware news group.
I have VMWare running on a RedHat box, but I assume it should work the same on SuSE. You need the parport and parport_pc modules to be loaded. I wrote my own init script that is called during system initialisation to load the modules for me. Here it is: ---------------- #!/bin/sh # # Source functions . /etc/init.d/functions alias=`egrep -s "^alias[[:space:]]+parport_lowlevel[[:space:]]+" /etc/modules.conf | awk '{ print $3 }'` if [ -n "$alias" -a "$alias" != "off" ] ; then action "Initializing ($alias): " modprobe $alias else echo "parport_lowlevel not in modules.conf" fi # this is all. # I have to add error detection also ... later ------------ And I added the following line to /etc/modules.conf ----<snip>---- alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc ----<snip>---- Unfortunately I cannot help you much with setting up this script in SuSE, as I have only been using SuSE since Monday (3 days) :-) I do see that there is an parport entry in my SuSE box's /etc/modules.conf. Maybe someone else can help you to get the parport modules to load on boot. But to check if it helps now, you should be able to do: modprobe parport_pc now to get the modules loaded. Do 'lsmod' to see if the modules are running. Then you need to set your parallel port as /dev/parport0 in the VMWare settings. Hope this helps -- Andre Truter Software Engineer <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->